Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" As movie monsters go, zombies are the most human. They were human at one time. So we are confronted with ourselves in a way, which is much more frightening and disturbing. "
George A. Romero
Go
Way
More
Related Quotes:
" With 'Dawn,' I wanted the slick look; I wanted to bring out the nature of the shopping center, the retail displays, the mannequins. There are times when maybe you reflect that the mannequins are more attractive but less real - less sympathetic, even - than the zombies. Put those kinds of images side by side, and you raise all sorts of questions. "
George A. Romero
Nature
Questions
You
" I have a soft spot in my heart for the zombies. "
George A. Romero
Soft
Zombies
Spot
" I'm like my zombies. I won't stay dead! "
George A. Romero
Like
Zombies
Stay
" 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. "
George A. Romero
Me
Film
Fly
" Zombies to me don't represent anything in particular. They are a global disaster that people don't know how to deal with. "
George A. Romero
People
Anything
Disaster
" Nursery rhymes were political when they were first written! To me, that's what it's about: it's about using it to say something more than just what the story is. "
George A. Romero
First
Me
More
" On the other side of that coin, and far outweighing it, is the fact that I've been able to use genre of Fantasy/Horror and express my opinion, talk a little about society, do a little bit of satire and that's been great, man. A lot of people don't have that platform. "
George A. Romero
Man
Great
Great Man
" 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. "
George A. Romero
Survive
Funny
School
" Is Michael Moore an honest documentarian? Honestly? I don't think he is... The real discussion gets left behind the entertainment value. "
George A. Romero
Discussion
Real
Honest
" I won't say I'm uncompromising, but I won't compromise just for the hell of it. "
George A. Romero
Compromise
Just
Hell
" People called '28 Days' and '28 Weeks' zombie movies, and they're not! It's some sort of virus; they're not dead. "
George A. Romero
Some
Zombie
People
" I've made six zombie films; I've tried consciously to make each one different from the next. "
George A. Romero
Made
Next
Zombie
" I sit around listening to classical music. I don't play video games. I love to go to dinner, go on picnics, travel. "
George A. Romero
Listening
Love
Music
" A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation. "
George A. Romero
Situation
Stupid
Film
" The hardest thing when you're making a zombie movie is, 'How am I going to kill these zombies? I need a clever way to knock these guys off.' "
George A. Romero
Way
Zombie
Clever
" The horror films that I've made have been satirical in one way or another or political, and I really think that's the purpose of horror. I don't see that happening very often. "
George A. Romero
Horror
Think
See
" A lot of my friends are people who do horror films: Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Stephen King. "
George A. Romero
Friends
Horror
King
" I expect a zombie to show up on 'Sesame Street' soon, teaching kids to count. "
George A. Romero
Zombie
Up
Street
" There is something about the sameness people like. And what I've tried to do with all the zombie films is purposely make them different. That may be part of why it takes so long for people to see what it's intended to be. "
George A. Romero
Long
Why
Zombie
" Horror films are the anchovies of the cinema. Either you like them, or you don't. "
George A. Romero
You
Cinema
Either
" I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed. "
George A. Romero
Good
Who
Flawed
" My stuff is my stuff. I do it for my own reasons, using my own peculiar set of guidelines. "
George A. Romero
Reasons
Guidelines
My Own
" I like to use horror as allegory. "
George A. Romero
Like
Use
Allegory
" If I go to a movie and it's particularly violent, and people are leaving the theatre ready to vomit, we're sitting there with our popcorn just chuckling. "
George A. Romero
Leaving
Theatre
Sitting