George A. Romero Quotes
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I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed.
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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 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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Some directors work from day to day. I work from moment to moment.
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Collaborate, don't dictate.
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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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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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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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I've only actually done one studio film. I want to be left alone.
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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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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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Neighbors are frightening enough when they're alive.
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I'm basically a fairly traditional filmmaker.
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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 grew up in New York City. And I lived in the Bronx in a place called Parkchester.
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I'll never get sick of zombies. I just get sick of producers.
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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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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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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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'Martin' is my favorite film of mine and 'Knightriders' a close second.
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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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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.