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When I was growing up, I actually went through, in New York City, blackouts when we had to close the windows and worry about air raids. I don't know whether or not those were realistic worries or not, but as a kid, when we all had to run around pulling down the drapes and turning the lights off; it was a very frightening experience.
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With CG, I can do more and be sillier. In 'Diary,' there's a scene where they hit a guy with acid, and the camera is never off him, and you see it gradually eat through his skull and get all the way through his brain. That's fun, too.
George A. Romero
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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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My film collection is all oldies.
George A. Romero -
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 -
I'm a Turner Classic Movies guy. That's it. I'd much rather sit here and watch an oldie than anything new.
George A. Romero -
Zombies cannot run.
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Pittsburgh, for a while, became a production centre. There was one $400 million year. Hollywood was bringing productions in there. Films like 'The Silence of the Lambs' and 'Innocent Blood.' So my guys, the guys I worked with, were able to have careers and live at home. But then it dried up, and a lot of my friends left.
George A. Romero
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The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.
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The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.
George A. Romero -
A lot of my friends are people who do horror films: Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Stephen King.
George A. Romero -
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.
George A. Romero -
Neighbors are frightening enough when they're alive.
George A. Romero -
I've made six zombie films; I've tried consciously to make each one different from the next.
George A. Romero
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The grotesque has never really affected or frightened me. I guess it's real-life stuff that frightens me much more.
George A. Romero -
Zombies are always moving fast in video games. It makes sense if you think about it. Those games are all about hand-eye coordination and how quickly can you get them before they get you.
George A. Romero -
The only advice you can give is, 'Don't let the bad stuff keep you down.'
George A. Romero -
In the old days, there were three networks, and all of a sudden, Walter Cronkite is the most trusted man in America. Everybody believes what he says, not even thinking. In those days, we didn't even know it was being spun. We were very willing to just listen to it and go along with.
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I've never had a zombie eat a brain! I don't know where that comes from. Who says zombies eat brains?
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Collaborate, don't dictate.
George A. Romero
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I will never make a film where zombies are threatening to take over the planet.
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To me, the zombies have always just been zombies. They've always been a cigar. When I first made 'Night of the Living Dead,' it got analyzed and overanalyzed way out of proportion. The zombies were written about as if they represented Nixon's Silent Majority or whatever. But I never thought about it that way.
George A. Romero -
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 -
If you look to the few films that have been really successful, 'Insidious,' 'Paranormal Activity,' it's all basically the old monsters.
George A. Romero