Daily Inspiration Quote by Dario Argento

Creation, for Argento, is a kind of controlled possession: the finished film returns to him as an alien object. That estrangement isn’t modesty or mystique so much as a tell about how his cinema actually works. Argento’s best work is engineered on instinct and sensation first - color, rhythm, shock, the uncanny logic of dreams - and only afterward does it harden into “a movie” that can be judged, archived, and replayed. When he says it feels like “another mind,” he’s pointing to the gap between making and watching: on set, you’re inside the fever; in the theater, you’re forced into sobriety.

The line also quietly defends his refusal to over-explain. Argento has often been treated as a stylist whose plots are secondary. By framing the film as something made by “another person,” he sidesteps the auteur-as-mastermind myth while still affirming authorship in a more unsettling way: the author is the unconscious. That’s perfectly on-brand for a director whose gialli and supernatural horrors treat perception as unreliable and identity as porous. The camera in Suspiria or Deep Red doesn’t just record violence; it behaves like a roaming psyche, drawn to details before it understands them.

There’s an industry context, too: a finished film is the product of editing, scoring, dubbing, producers, budgets, accidents. Argento’s remark acknowledges the collaboration - but it’s less kumbaya than eerie. The collective process doesn’t dilute the self; it creates a double.