George A. Romero Quotes

I'm like my zombies. I won't stay dead!

I've always felt that the real horror is next door to us, that the scariest monsters are our neighbors.

I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.

If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.

When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth.

A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.

I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.

As a filmmaker, I love the medium. I have a great affection for it and I've been lucky enough to do all different kinds of films. The greatest part of the success I've had comes from horror. I love the idea of mixing humor and horror and to me, it's all a giggle.

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.

Nothings ever real until its real.

I think zombies would fit in anywhere. You can tell any story, and put zombies in it. I don't know how I'd find the backing, but I think it'd be great to make a zombie gangster movie.

My stuff is my stuff. I do it for my own reasons, using my own peculiar set of guidelines. I'm not a student of the genre. I don't care what anybody else does.

I'll never get sick of zombies. I just get sick of producers.

Collaborate, don't dictate.

Just because I'm showing somebody being disemboweled doesn't mean that I have to get heavy and put a message behind it.

Zombies are the real lower-class citizens of the monster world and that's why l like them.

I expect a zombie to show up on Sesame Street soon, teaching kids to count.

My opinion of a good zombie walk is to loll your head as if it's a little too heavy and the muscles have begun to atrophy.

If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

Movies are about escape.

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.

My stuff is my stuff. Sometimes it's not as successful as some of the other stuff. But it's my stuff.

It is amazing to me how deeply into the popular culture the creature has become. There are zombie walks in every major city. I live in Toronto, and last year 3,000 people came out dressed as zombies.... I do not get it. Maybe it's an easy costume: Splash some ketchup on and rip up your jeans -- although most people already have torn jeans -- and you're done.

Hollywood doesn't trust me, and we don't really mix. When a movie has stars, everything in the budget goes up, even the catering costs. I just don't like the process of having Suits all around, so I prefer casting unknowns. It adds another level of tension - you don't quite know what to expect from them. My movies don't even need that much money.

I've never been able to reuse characters, I've often wanted to. I've never been able to get people to cooperate. I can't get anyone together on any kind of deal.