George A. Romero Quotes
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My film collection is all oldies.
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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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Film is a very expensive medium.
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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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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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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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I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.
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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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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'll never get sick of zombies. I just get sick of producers.
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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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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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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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'Martin' is my favorite film of mine and 'Knightriders' a close second.
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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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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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The two great things about computer CG stuff are I can now do gags I would never have dreamed of in the old day.
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Collaborate, don't dictate.
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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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I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed.
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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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The zombie was just an intriguing character; it is a sympathetic character.
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Anybody who tunes into Rush Limabaugh already knows what he's going to say and is already inclined to agree. So it winds up creating tribes.