George A. Romero Quotes

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

I don`t try to answer any questions or preach. My personality and my opinions come through in the satire of the films, but I think of them as a snapshot of the time. I have this device, or conceit, where something happens in the world and I can say, `Ooo, I`ll talk about that, and I can throw zombies in it! And get it made!` You know, it`s kind of my ticket to ride.

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.

If you have 60 people dress like zombies and you show them something that you like, you get 60 people doing the exact same thing. 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.

I`ll never live long enough to arrive at some sort of peaceful co-existence of some kind. That`s probably the only way you could end it on a note of promise, which would mean the zombies would learn how to eat Spam or chicken livers, instead of your liver. But I`ll never get to that point.

(On his fourth installment of the "Living Dead" series, Land of the Dead (2005)): The idea of living with terrorism - I`ve tried to make it more applicable to the concerns Americans are going through now.

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

I`m like my zombies. I won`t stay dead!

I guess in my pictures you`re either doomed or you`ve got yourself a hell of a job.

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

My zombie films have been so far apart that I`ve been able to reflect the socio-political climates of the different decades. I have this conceit that they`re a little bit of a chronicle, a cinematic diary of what`s going on.

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

Just because I`m showing somebody being disemboweled doesn`t mean I have to get heavy and put a message round it.

Yeah, I`m seen by the studios as a genre guy. I`ve made several non-genre films, but nobody went to see them. I guess I`ll never be a member of that club.