George A. Romero Quotes
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The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.
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I can't really make fun of zombies. They're not liars. They're not cheats.
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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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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.
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Movies are about escape.
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One thing about a film production is that it must run efficiently; there is no room for dead wood. So somebody that hangs around by the coffee wagon won't get hired again, but somebody who is dedicated and works hard and really puts out will get noticed by the people that matter around there and will get asked to come back again.
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You just wish you could lobotomize yourself and just do a thing that's really on instinct. There's always a certain self-consciousness. And you worry about that.
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I really believe that you could do horror very inexpensively. I don't think it has anything to do with the effects, the effects are not the most important parts.
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I grew up on the old EC comic books before the Comics Code in North American and with all sort of good-natured fun. I never had nightmares I think because all of the old horror stuff that I was exposed to was well meaning in a certain sense.
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Horror will always be there, it always comes back, it's a familiar genre that some people, not everyone - it's sort of the cinema anchovies. You either like it or you don't.
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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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'The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me. But the one that made me want to make movies was 'The Tales of Hoffman.' That's my favorite film of all time. It's a fantasy film. It's an opera. I never get tired 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 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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Somehow I've been able to keep standing and stay in my little corner and do my little stuff and I'm not particularly affected by trends or I'm not dying to make a 3D movie or anything like that. I'm just sort of happy to still be around.
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Neighbors are frightening enough when they're alive.
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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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I'll never get sick of zombies. I just get sick of producers.
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Collaborate, don't dictate.
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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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Some directors work from day to day. I work from moment to moment.
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I wanted 'Night of the Living Dead' to look naturalistic, but we weren't able to do it because we were shooting with a blimped 35mm camera, which is automatically static.
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My zombies will never take over the world because I need the humans. The humans are the ones I dislike the most, and they're where the trouble really lies.