George A. Romero

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

“With CG, I can do more and be sillier. In 'Diary,' there's a scene where they hit a guy with acid, and the camera is never off him, and you see it gradually eat through his skull and get all...”

“At the time we did 'Night,' I was a director of television commercials. Some of them cost a lot more than our whole movie. They were very slick, sophisticated... we wanted the opposite look...”

“With 'Dawn,' I wanted the slick look; I wanted to bring out the nature of the shopping center, the retail displays, the mannequins. There are times when maybe you reflect that the mannequins...”

“I have a soft spot in my heart for the zombies.”

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

“'Night of the Living Dead,' then 'Dawn of the Dead' is a few weeks later, 'Day of the Dead' months later, and 'Land of the Dead' is three years later. Each one spoke about a different decade...”

“My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as mu...”

“When you're shooting super-low-budget - we had 20 days to shoot 'Diary,' and a little over $2 - time is money.”

“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.”

“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!”

“I won't say I'm uncompromising, but I won't compromise just for the hell of it.”

“The main thing people took from 'Night of the Living Dead' was that it was a racial statement movie, and that was completely unintended.”

“Because of 'World War Z' and 'The Walking Dead,' I can't pitch a modest little zombie film which is meant to be sociopolitical.”

“I've seen so many young filmmakers - even professional filmmakers who get a Hollywood deal - they don't quite know where to begin, where to end, and they'll waste a lot of time making this p...”

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

“I've made six zombie films; I've tried consciously to make each one different from the next.”

“I don't want to do 'Beyond the Planet of the Apes.' I don't want a zombie society. I don't want to go that far.”

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

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