George A. Romero Quotes
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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.
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I sympathize with the zombies and am not even sure they are villains. To me they are this earth-changing thing. God or the devil changed the rules, and dead people are not staying dead.
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Film is a very expensive medium.
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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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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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If I go to a movie and it's particularly violent, and people are leaving the theatre ready to vomit, we're sitting there with our popcorn just chuckling.
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The main thing people took from 'Night of the Living Dead' was that it was a racial statement movie, and that was completely unintended.
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I'm basically a fairly traditional filmmaker.
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I grew up in New York City. And I lived in the Bronx in a place called Parkchester.
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I've seen so many young filmmakers - even professional filmmakers who get a Hollywood deal - they don't quite know where to begin, where to end, and they'll waste a lot of time making this perfect shot, an establishing shot, and then there's no time left to shoot the dialogue.
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Zombies are my ticket to ride! It's how I get a deal! I don't care what they are. I don't care where they came from.
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I do think of my films as morality plays, even though my reputation is, you know, splatter films and like that. But I think of them as very moral.
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When I was old enough to go to movies alone, I got to see 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' on the big screen. I just fell in love with them.
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People say you're trapped in this genre. You're a horror guy. I say wait a minute - I'm able to say exactly what I think. I'm able to talk about, comment about, take snapshots of what's going on at the time. I don't feel trapped. I feel like this is my way of being able to express myself.
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I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed.
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I'll never get sick of zombies. I just get sick of producers.
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Neighbors are frightening enough when they're alive.
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I keep a little notebook of things that I can do to the zombies that might be silly and fun.
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Collaborate, don't dictate.
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The zombie was just an intriguing character; it is a sympathetic character.
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I love a couple of Fulci things. I just had a gas watching them. It's not what I would do, but I loved watching them. They were fun.
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Nothing's ever real until it's real.
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I go to these horror conventions all the time, and these audiences get so deep into it. They've pulled apart every movie fifty ways from Sunday.
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At the time we did 'Night,' I was a director of television commercials. Some of them cost a lot more than our whole movie. They were very slick, sophisticated... we wanted the opposite look for 'Night.' We wanted it to look like a newsreel.