George A. Romero Quotes

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

Idea, Within, Liked

I can't really make fun of zombies. They're not liars. They're not cheats.
George A. Romero

Fun, Liars, Zombies

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

Fun, Stupid, Around

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

Kids, Show, Expect

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

Young, Put, Talk

I keep a little notebook of things that I can do to the zombies that might be silly and fun.
George A. Romero

Fun, Keep, Might

People called '28 Days' and '28 Weeks' zombie movies, and they're not! It's some sort of virus; they're not dead.
George A. Romero

Movies, Dead, Days

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.
George A. Romero

Knows, Anybody, Creating

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

Love, Actor, Trapped

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.
George A. Romero

Great, Wisdom, Him

Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.
George A. Romero

Movies, Die, Old

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.
George A. Romero

Someone, Dark, Old

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

Funny, School, Classmates

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.
George A. Romero

Everyone, Either, Horror

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

Revolution, Thought, Next

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.
George A. Romero

Laugh, Stuff, Seems

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

Best, Less, Spend

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

Bad, Made, Moral

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

Fun, Before, Old

I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed.
George A. Romero

Good, Guys, Flawed

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

Important, Horror, Effects

I really liked the helicopter pilot in 'Dawn of the Dead', when he gets bitten and comes out of the elevator. That guy was amazing. He did this incredible walk that we didn't even know about until we started shooting.
George A. Romero

Amazing, Dead, Until

I sympathize with the zombies and am not even sure they are villains. To me they are this earth-changing thing. God or the devil changed the rules, and dead people are not staying dead.
George A. Romero

God, Dead, Sure

I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money.
George A. Romero

Money, Working, Free

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

Character, Thought, Wonderful

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Nationality: American

Born: February 4, 1940

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