Dario Argento Quotes

I don't think I could have had a better experience than I did with 'Girlfight.' It was a humbling experience to be so well received. And it was equally humbling to be ripped to pieces with 'Aeon Flux.'

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere.

The John Ford pictures I made are highly regarded, but at the time they didn't seem like that.

I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.

It's drama, it's a lot of things, but you know it's always about every movie or every TV project ever made is meant to be watched. If people like it and support it, that's what it is all about, really it's sort of the important part about it.

I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.

Some of my films are known for the depiction of violence. I don't have anything to prove with that any more.

Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.

I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

It's the sad thing about entertainment, it's not always about who is the best.

I was very influenced by the films of the '70s.

I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.

A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics.

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

People would say, 'Boy, I really loved you in Ferris Bueller," and it would really aggravate me. I thought I was a one-trick pony, and people had seen the trick. Now that things have worked out and I've gone on to other things, I'm really pleased that people enjoy it.

I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated.

I really do hope that the people will like 14:59. The critics seem to like it. We got a lot of good reviews.

Any movie that gets made and ends up in a position where people are coming to talk about it, it's not a small thing.

People are very appreciative, and I'm always thrilled at how long the 'Morse' films have lasted. They seem to have an afterlife that goes on and on for decades, which is touching.

Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.

'12 Years A Slave' is a film that is beautifully shot, wonderfully acted, and told in a compelling manner. However, there are some questions, in my opinion, as to its importance. Paramount among those questions is, What does this scenario illustrate that we didn't know or haven't seen before? And why does such a film garner such popularity?

I believe in good films and bad films. Box-office business and all is my husband's section. Sometimes I really get surprised when good films don't do well... Sometimes you are really shocked when an average film does very well.

I grew up with a deep regard for cinema.

Quality cinema is not changing anything, everything is the same. The artistes and other people involved in these films get some recognition at international film festivals and award shows only.