George A. Romero Quotes

• 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.

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

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• Horror will always be there, it always comes back, it’s a familiar genre that some people, not everyone – it’s sort of the cinema anchovies. You either like it or you don’t.

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• 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.

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• First of all, in the old days, if you wanted to show someone getting shot on film, all you could do was place an effect in the original take. And if you wanted to brighten somebody’s face and leave the rest of the room dark, that was a very expensive process.

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• Ever since ‘Lassie’ and ‘Old Yeller’, I won’t watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.

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• Anybody who tunes into Rush Limabaugh already knows what he’s going to say and is already inclined to agree. So it winds up creating tribes.

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

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

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• I can’t really make fun of zombies. They’re not liars. They’re not cheats.

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• Yeah, well, the F-bomb – it’s become as ubiquitous as the word ‘like.’ People just throw the word ‘like’ around as punctuation. And I think in a lot of everyday speech, the F-bomb has become a kind of dash or a comma.

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• 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.

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• The guy that made me wanna make movies… and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.

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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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• 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.

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• I think you’re only free if you’re working on very low or huge money.

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• As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can’t carry a movie. They’ll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won’t put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.

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• 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.

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

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

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George A. Romero (43)

Birth:	4th February, 1940
Nationality:	American, Canadian
Profession:	Film Director, Screenwriter

About

George Andrew Romero was born in The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States. He is an American-Canadian film director and screenwriter. He directed and written several films include: Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead, Diary of the Dead, Survival of the Dead, Knightriders, Monkey Shines, Martin, The Dark Half, Season of the Witch, and Bruiser.

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