Quotes About Apocalypse

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.

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.

I like to think that I could survive should the apocalypse or zombies show up.

With slow-moving zombies, what always comes at stake is our humanity.

Zombies have always had a lot of built-in social commentary.

I like my zombies slow and I like my zombies stupid.

I'd like to avoid the environmental apocalypse if I could. Zombies, robots - I don't know - I'd probably do alright hidden in the middle of the herd and sacrificing people to keep myself alive, but where you gonna hide when all the food is gone?

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.

Zombies are eternal. They're like dinosaurs.

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

Zombies are kind of a perennial.

I would like to do a horror film with zombies!

'Zone One' has one kind of an apocalypse, and 'The Underground Railroad' another. In both cases, the narrators are animated by a hope in a better place of refuge - in the last surviving human outpost, Up North. Does it exist? They can only believe.

Stephen King in general, as well as films of the apocalypse from the '70s, had a big influence on 'Zone One.'

I've thought a lot about how if something horrible happened, and if it were like 'The Road' situation, I've decided I don't want to survive past the death of society as we know it.

"Red Dawn" was a movie made in 1984 I think about World War III. If you have not seen it and plan on watching it, you want to close your eye and cover your ears but not really. You can figure it out.

It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III.

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.

It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse.

Lani regarded smudged mascara as a worse catastrophe than nuclear holocaust.

I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.

My own judgment of how the world is gonna end is that there will be a country led by a madman that will build a nuclear bomb with so much force, so much power, that it will be dropped somewhere on the face of this earth and that the earth will lose its place.

Once people realized that, 'Hey, we're going to be left on Earth here, and everything is going to hell quickly,' sci-fi soon became about our own self-destruction.