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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.
George A. Romero -
I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed.
George A. Romero
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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.
George A. Romero -
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.
George A. Romero -
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.
George A. Romero -
'Day of the Dead' remains my favourite zombie film of mine.
George A. Romero -
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.
George A. Romero -
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.
George A. Romero
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Some directors work from day to day. I work from moment to moment.
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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.
George A. Romero -
I grew up in New York City. And I lived in the Bronx in a place called Parkchester.
George A. Romero -
For me, tribalism and religion are basically the big reasons we're in trouble. Patriotism, tribalism, and religion.
George A. Romero -
I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.
George A. Romero -
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.
George A. Romero
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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.
George A. Romero -
The 'Dead' films allow me to talk about things that a drama, say, won't. 'Dawn Of The Dead,' which was set in a shopping mall, is on one level about consumerism; 'Land Of The Dead' is a response to Bush.
George A. Romero -
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.
George A. Romero -
I keep a little notebook of things that I can do to the zombies that might be silly and fun.
George A. Romero -
I'm basically a fairly traditional filmmaker.
George A. Romero -
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.
George A. Romero
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I don't think you need to spend $40 million to be creepy. The best horror films are the ones that are much less endowed.
George A. Romero -
The two great things about computer CG stuff are I can now do gags I would never have dreamed of in the old day.
George A. Romero -
After 'Land,' I wanted to do something about emerging media and citizen journalism, so I got this idea for 'Diary of the Dead.'
George A. Romero -
My films, I've tried to put a message into them. It's not about the gore; it's not about the horror element that are in them. It's more about the message, for me. That's what it is, and I'm using this platform to be able to show my feelings of what I think.
George A. Romero