George A. Romero quotes

I'll never get sick of zombies. I just get sick of producers. (George A. Romero)
Zombies are always moving fast in video games. It makes sense if you think about it. Those games are all about hand-eye coordination and how quickly can you get them before they get you.
George A. Romero
For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.
George A. Romero
I can't really make fun of zombies. They're not liars. They're not cheats.
George A. Romero
When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.
George A. Romero
I'm like my zombies. I won't stay dead!
George A. Romero
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.
George A. Romero
I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.
George A. Romero
A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.
George A. Romero
I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.
George A. Romero
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. (George A. Romero)
I expect a zombie to show up on Sesame Street soon, teaching kids to count.
George A. Romero
Movies are about escape.
George A. Romero
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
As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!
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
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
I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money.
George A. Romero
I really believe that you could do horror very inexpensively. I don't think it has anything to do with the effects, the effects are not the most important parts.
George A. Romero
I go to conventions and universities and talk to young filmmakers and everybody's making a zombie movie! It's because it's easy to get the neighbors to come out, put some ketchup on them.
George A. Romero
I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed. (George A. Romero)
I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.
George A. Romero
The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.
George A. Romero
There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it with, and somehow forget the movie. You can't forgive the movie for a long time. It takes a few years to look at it with any objectivity and forgive its flaws.
George A. Romero
I don't like the new trends in horror. All this torture stuff seems really mean-spirited. People have forgotten how to laugh, and I don't see anybody who's using it as allegory. The guy I love right now is Guillermo del Toro. I'd love to make a film like Pan's Labyrinth.
George A. Romero