Dario Argento Quotes

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.

I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.

Every film has been a personal milestone for me.

I always feel that my films ought to teach me something about life.

Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.

The two records are very different. I guess, on the second record, that's more where I was at. Its not that I'm more well-adjusted or anything, it's just that what I wanted to sing about maybe was more the way I wanted to feel.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.

For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.

By the time I went to Yale, I'd been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless - and a little bored - and I was really eager to investigate different parts of myself.

You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.

People say I am stuck in childhood, but it's not that. I remember seeing a Matisse retrospective, and you could see he started out one way, and then he tried something different, and then he seemed to spend his whole life trying to get back to the first thing.

Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

I had an experience that was kind of backward. Instead of thinking that photography was a step down, it brought me a step up, to transpose and modify things.

Everything I do is a learning experience. It's still fun to me because I grow with every project and every song.

When I look back, there isn't a single film that I would disown because with every film, I've learnt a lot.

Time moves too slowly for me to notice any evolution in my creative tendencies.

I am never going to stop evolving and growing.

As someone whose music is connected to his personal growth, I feel an obligation to follow this muse wherever it leads.