George A. Romero Quotes
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I'm basically a fairly traditional filmmaker.
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You can get an audience no matter what your opinion is.
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The zombie was just an intriguing character; it is a sympathetic character.
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Nothing's ever real until it's real.
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I've only actually done one studio film. I want to be left alone.
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I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.
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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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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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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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I grew up in New York City. And I lived in the Bronx in a place called Parkchester.
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For me, tribalism and religion are basically the big reasons we're in trouble. Patriotism, tribalism, and religion.
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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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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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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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Film is a very expensive medium.
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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'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 keep a little notebook of things that I can do to the zombies that might be silly and fun.
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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 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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I thought Godzilla was a mess, the monster had no character and the humans didn't either. They forgot to make the movie that went along with all these wonderful effects.
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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.
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'Day of the Dead' remains my favourite zombie film of mine.