Explore Quotes by George A. Romero

I did 'Land of the Dead,' which was the biggest zombie film I had ever made. I don't think it needed to be that big. That money went largely to the cast. They were great, but I don't think that money needed to be spent.

I grew up on EC comic books and 'Tales From the Crypt,' which were all loaded with humor, bad jokes, and puns. I can have that kind of fun and make these comic book movies but, at the same time, talk about things I want to talk about - whether it's consumerism or the Bush administration or war.

I always have CNN on. That's where I get my ideas.

A lot of my friends are people who do horror films: Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Stephen King.

My stuff is my stuff. I do it for my own reasons, using my own peculiar set of guidelines.

I saw 'Dracula,' 'Frankenstein,' 'The Wolf Man,' 'The Invisible Man.' I saw all those guys on the big screen at RKO in the Bronx. I just always loved that stuff. I loved other stuff, too. That's the thing. That wasn't all I wanted to be.

I've only actually done one studio film. I want to be left alone.

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

I love 'Shaun of the Dead.'

Zombies to me don't represent anything in particular. They are a global disaster that people don't know how to deal with.

Neighbors are frightening enough when they're alive.

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.

To me, the zombies have always just been zombies. They've always been a cigar. When I first made 'Night of the Living Dead,' it got analyzed and overanalyzed way out of proportion. The zombies were written about as if they represented Nixon's Silent Majority or whatever. But I never thought about it that way.

My films, I've tried to put a message into them. It's not about the gore; it's not about the horror element that are in them. It's more about the message, for me. That's what it is, and I'm using this platform to be able to show my feelings of what I think.

Comic books and radio were my escape. I even remember 3-D comic books where you put on the red-and-green glasses and Mighty Mouse would punch you in the face. It was the literature of the day for kids my age who were too bored with listening to 'Peter and the Wolf' on the record player.

I sit around listening to classical music. I don't play video games. I love to go to dinner, go on picnics, travel.

You just wish you could lobotomize yourself and just do a thing that's really on instinct. There's always a certain self-consciousness. And you worry about that.

If you look to the few films that have been really successful, 'Insidious,' 'Paranormal Activity,' it's all basically the old monsters.

I guess my stuff needs to grow on people. Too bad! That seems to happen with all of it.

After 'Land,' I wanted to do something about emerging media and citizen journalism, so I got this idea for 'Diary of the Dead.'

I do think of my films as morality plays, even though my reputation is, you know, splatter films and like that. But I think of them as very moral.