Dario Argento Quotes

To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than make the kind of 'entertaining' film that everyone feels ambivalent about.

I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really.

I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.

Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

I think you have to take each movie for its own value. There will be those you'll roll your eyes over and others you can't wait to see. It all has to do with the intention. If someone's intention is just to make money and exploit something for profit, then it's not good. If it's thoughtfully done, the proof's in the pudding.

I feel the responsibility to make things which on some level have something positive to say.

I think what's important for myself and anyone else who wants to create a film, or art, is [to] make sure that they have something to say, that they want to share something important, express something important.

I want to be interested in the music I make until I die. That's more important to me than the size of my audience.

I'm not interested in artistic records for the sake of making artistic records where they're so cool no one listens to them.

I think that there's a difference between being an entertainer and being an artist.

I go to watch the so-called mainstream films for different reasons. I certainly like those films if they are giving me something new to look out for.

I think there's art, and then there's illustration. Art comes from a deeper place.

I want to be associated with films that are content-oriented.

The saying "the business of art is different than the purpose of art" makes sense, and what are you going to do about that? You have some obligation to get the work out there, you believe in it enough that it should be out in the public, but of course it goes through a system that takes it pretty far away from the reasons you made them.

I think that some of the writing, directing, and the content is better than a lot of movies sometimes. Actors, well artists in general - actors, writers, directors - what we all care about the most is good work and being able to create something that is really resonant and meaningful.

It is always understood as an expression of condemnation when anything in Literature or Art is said to be done for effect; and yet to produce an effect is the aim and end of both.

At the end of the day, it's nice to walk away from a set knowing that you're doing a movie that is not just for money and is not just pure entertainment.

I'm not opposed to nude scenes, if they're appropriate. I'm not against them morally. But I personally no longer find movie nudity to be worth my while.

Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.

My films are often characterized by the lack of women present in them, except for this last one [Once Upon a Time in America].

To me, more importantly, I want to make films that I believe in, that I find value in that I think folks will like.

You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.

I know there is one kind of cinema that exists in the world, that is good or bad cinema.

For art to be art it has to cure.