George A. Romero Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
-
Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
-
It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
-
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
-
At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
-
My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.
-
I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
-
There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
-
We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
-
I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
-
I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
-
People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
-
Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
-
My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.
-
Dancing doesn't have a language.
-
Luxury is a state of mind.
-
I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
-
I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.
-
It was exciting putting hundreds of millions of dollars to work buying and building wind farms in Texas.
-
A lot of people might think the job of a model isn't necessary anymore, but just like an actor, singer - how they make you feel a certain way - how watching a dancer gives you emotion, models can do the exact same thing to many different people.
-
My family was quite poor, and the NHS was recruiting people from abroad to do psychiatric nursing. It was the only hope I had to leave Hong Kong.
-
I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.
-
Movie dialogue is movie dialogue. It can sound real, but no one speaks that way.
-
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.
