George A. Romero Quotes
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With 'Dawn,' I wanted the slick look; I wanted to bring out the nature of the shopping center, the retail displays, the mannequins. There are times when maybe you reflect that the mannequins are more attractive but less real - less sympathetic, even - than the zombies. Put those kinds of images side by side, and you raise all sorts of questions.
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Movies are about escape.
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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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When you're shooting super-low-budget - we had 20 days to shoot 'Diary,' and a little over $2 - time is money.
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I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money.
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I'm more alarmed by people reacting violently to the violence in my films than I am by the violence in films.
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I always have CNN on. That's where I get my ideas.
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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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You can get an audience no matter what your opinion is.
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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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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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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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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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My film collection is all oldies.
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I'm telling you, man, after I did 'Land of the Dead,' which Mark Canton produced, Universal picked it up, and I had to use stars. I didn't think I needed stars - Dennis Hopper was in it. I loved him. We hung out. I loved him, but his cigar budget was more than we paid for the entire budget of 'Night of the Living Dead.'
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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 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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The grotesque has never really affected or frightened me. I guess it's real-life stuff that frightens me much more.
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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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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 always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.
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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.