George A. Romero Quotes
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You can fall on your face easily if you go off in a certain direction. The Birds is a good example, some people are really phobic about birds flying over their heads, and some don't care. So, it's a personal thing.
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My stuff is my stuff. Sometimes it's not as successful as some of the other stuff. But it's my stuff.
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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.
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The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.
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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.
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Just because I'm showing somebody being disemboweled doesn't mean that I have to get heavy and put a message behind it.
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People called 28 Days and 28 Weeks zombie movies, and they're not! It's some sort of virus; they're not dead.
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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.
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If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.
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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.
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Movies are about escape.
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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.
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I expect a zombie to show up on Sesame Street soon, teaching kids to count.
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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.
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I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed.
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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!
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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.
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As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.
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I'm like my zombies. I won't stay dead!
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Zombies are the blue-collar monsters
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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.
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I don't want a zombie society. I don't want to go that far.
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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.
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I'll never get sick of zombies. I just get sick of producers.
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I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.
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As a filmmaker, I love the medium. I have a great affection for it and I've been lucky enough to do all different kinds of films. The greatest part of the success I've had comes from horror. I love the idea of mixing humor and horror and to me, it's all a giggle.
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When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth.
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Collaborate, don't dictate. Every department head has something to offer. Listen and gratefully accept their offerings. They're moviemakers, too.
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Zombies are the real lower-class citizens of the monster world and that's why l like them.
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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.
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