George A. Romero Quotes

I'm like my zombies. I won't stay dead!

If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.

I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.

When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth.

I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.

I've always felt that the real horror is next door to us, that the scariest monsters are our neighbors.

A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.

My stuff is my stuff. I do it for my own reasons, using my own peculiar set of guidelines. I'm not a student of the genre. I don't care what anybody else does.

Zombies are the blue-collar monsters

My zombies will never take over the world because I need the humans. The humans are the ones I dislike the most, and they're where the trouble really lies.

I'll never get sick of zombies. I just get sick of producers.

Just because I'm showing somebody being disemboweled doesn't mean that I have to get heavy and put a message behind it.

Collaborate, don't dictate.

My opinion of a good zombie walk is to loll your head as if it's a little too heavy and the muscles have begun to atrophy.

If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

Movies are about escape.

I don't think you need to spend $40 million to be creepy. The best horror films are the ones that are much less endowed.

Nothings ever real until its real.

I think zombies would fit in anywhere. You can tell any story, and put zombies in it. I don't know how I'd find the backing, but I think it'd be great to make a zombie gangster movie.

I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed.

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!

The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.

I don't want a zombie society. I don't want to go that far.

I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.

Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.

My stuff is my stuff. Sometimes it's not as successful as some of the other stuff. But it's my stuff.

For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.

The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me.

Zombies are the real lower-class citizens of the monster world and that's why l like them.

I've gotten letters, but mostly from Bible-belt types who say, you must be Satan! They come right out and call me Satan and hope that I'm damned to hell.

I can't really make fun of zombies. They're not liars. They're not cheats.

Everybody knows the rules, even though some break those rules.

I expect a zombie to show up on Sesame Street soon, teaching kids to count.

I go to conventions and universities and talk to young filmmakers and everybody's making a zombie movie! It's because it's easy to get the neighbors to come out, put some ketchup on them.

People called 28 Days and 28 Weeks zombie movies, and they're not! It's some sort of virus; they're not dead.

I really believe that you could do horror very inexpensively. I don't think it has anything to do with the effects, the effects are not the most important parts.

Collaborate, don't dictate. Every department head has something to offer. Listen and gratefully accept their offerings. They're moviemakers, too.

I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money.

Zombies are always moving fast in video games. It makes sense if you think about it. Those games are all about hand-eye coordination and how quickly can you get them before they get you.

I've never been able to reuse characters, I've often wanted to. I've never been able to get people to cooperate. I can't get anyone together on any kind of deal.

When I was old enough to go to movies alone, I got to see 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' on the big screen. I just fell in love with them.

I keep a little notebook of things that I can do to the zombies that might be silly and fun.

Anybody who tunes into Rush Limabaugh already knows what he's going to say and is already inclined to agree. So it winds up creating tribes.

For me, tribalism and religion are basically the big reasons we're in trouble. Patriotism, tribalism, and religion.

I sit around listening to classical music. I don't play video games. I love to go to dinner, go on picnics, travel.