Explore Quotes by George A. Romero

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'd love to make a film like 'Pan's Labyrinth.'

'Martin' is my favorite film of mine and 'Knightriders' a close second.

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

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.

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.

The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.

'The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me.

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

'Day of the Dead' remains my favourite zombie film of mine.

When you are working with low budgets and you have a gunshot with a squib and it goes wrong - the gun flash does not synchronize with the squib or whatever - it takes half an hour or 40 minutes to clean it all up and reset it. It's much easier to use a computer to paint in the flash and splatter.

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 have a soft spot in my heart for the zombies.

Zombies are my ticket to ride! It's how I get a deal! I don't care what they are. I don't care where they came from.

I grew up in New York City. And I lived in the Bronx in a place called Parkchester.

I'm basically a fairly traditional filmmaker.

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

I'm a Turner Classic Movies guy. That's it. I'd much rather sit here and watch an oldie than anything new.

I go to these horror conventions all the time, and these audiences get so deep into it. They've pulled apart every movie fifty ways from Sunday.

Most of my stuff was sort of of-the-time. 'The Crazies' was, basically, we were angry about Vietnam, and it had a reason for being.

The grotesque has never really affected or frightened me. I guess it's real-life stuff that frightens me much more.