Quotes from George A. Romero

The hardest thing when you're making a zombie movie is, 'How am I going to kill these zombies? I need a clever way to knock these guys off.'

I've never had a zombie eat a brain! I don't know where that comes from. Who says zombies eat brains?

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

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

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 much as possible.

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

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.

My zombies will never take over the world because I need the humans. The humans are the ones I dislike the most, and they're where the trouble really lies.

Zombies are always moving fast in video games. It makes sense if you think about it. Those games are all about hand-eye coordination and how quickly can you get them before they get you.

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

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

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 are more attractive but less real - less sympathetic, even - than the zombies. Put those kinds of images side by side, and you raise all sorts of questions.

I will never make a film where zombies are threatening to take over the planet.

Zombies cannot run.

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

As movie monsters go, zombies are the most human. They were human at one time. So we are confronted with ourselves in a way, which is much more frightening and disturbing.

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.

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 have a soft spot in my heart for the zombies.

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

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 for 'Night.' We wanted it to look like a newsreel.

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.

There aren't that many monsters. It's very hard to create a new monster.

Is Michael Moore an honest documentarian? Honestly? I don't think he is... The real discussion gets left behind the entertainment value.