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" Horror films are the anchovies of the cinema. Either you like them, or you don't. "

George A. Romero

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" 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.' "

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" I like to use horror as allegory. "

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" Zombies to me don't represent anything in particular. They are a global disaster that people don't know how to deal with. "

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

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" A lot of my friends are people who do horror films: Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Stephen King. "

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" I've made six zombie films; I've tried consciously to make each one different from the next. "

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

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" I won't say I'm uncompromising, but I won't compromise just for the hell of it. "

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

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" My stuff is my stuff. I do it for my own reasons, using my own peculiar set of guidelines. "

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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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