George A. Romero Quotes

When you're shooting super-low-budget - we had 20 days to shoot 'Diary,' and a little over $2 - time is money.

George A. Romero

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• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Hands
  • Our
  • Asleep

• I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Guy
  • Best
  • Looking

• Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Thought
  • Loved
  • Brazil

• When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Long
  • Day

• Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Real
  • Quality

• Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'

  

  Edith Head
  • Different
  • Girl
  • Language

• Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Mother
  • Choose
  • Abortion

• I came to America to make it my home, and I did.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Home
  • America
  • I Came

• When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Great
  • Playing
  • Role

• On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • History
  • Age

• Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • You
  • Tell
  • Outside

• I squeeze oranges every morning to make juice.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Morning
  • Juice
  • Squeeze

• I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • College
  • Mom

• The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Cause
  • Getting
  • Off

• I do what I can do to help my defense.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Help
  • I Can
  • Defense

• Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.

  

  Maggie Shayne
  • Done
  • Job
  • Book

• When we think of India, most of us are in fact thinking of Rajasthan, that large splotch of dun-colored desert in the country's northwest which, from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, was ruled by a succession of maharajas whose sense of color, opulence, and splendor created the most enduring images of India in the West.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Color

• The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• Sometimes, when you work with directors who have done it a lot and are established in the business and know the game, there are all these rules that they have. First-time directors will allow you to come in with choices. They're not so jaded by actors that they're like, 'Ugh, just do your job, man.'

  

  Jake Johnson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• One of my biggest pet peeves is well-dressed designers. If you spend that much time thinking about your own clothes, you're not spending enough time thinking about what you're designing.

  

  Joseph Altuzarra
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Pet

• For me, Paul Simon has always been an incredible songwriter, as he writes very complicated songs that sound very simple, and he makes it look so easy when it's not.

  

  Eliot Sumner
  • Simple

• The word 'art' does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Art

• When you're shooting super-low-budget - we had 20 days to shoot 'Diary,' and a little over $2 - time is money.

  

  George A. Romero
  • Time
  • Money