Quotes About Survival

You can't negotiate with a zombie. They have only one impulse - that's to eat us or our brains.

A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation.

A non-frightening zombie is a lame zombie.

Traditionally in zombie movies, one of the main characters dies.

I don't think anyone wants to cuddle a zombie.

There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them.

With the Romero zombie, you usually did not have a reason for the infection, the plague, the virus, whatever it's called.

I watched 'Dawn of the Dead' when I was young and I was intrigued. I like the whole zombie thing - what would it be like in real life?

I like zombie movies. I like 'The Walking Dead;' I like the metaphor of it, simply because when we go with the zombie concept - if you're bitten by a zombie, you don't transform into something else like a vampire or a werewolf or whatever. You become something that's not you.

All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'

I love zombie films.

In the fast zombie stories, it's not our humanity that is at stake anymore. It's our survival.

I am a zombie fan, but all of the zombie stories I've enjoyed started when the dead rose and ended three days later with everybody looking exhausted. I was thinking, 'What happens in 20 years?'

When you watch zombie movies, and people say, 'What's going on? What are we going to do?' it's like they live in a world where they've never seen zombie movies.

I feel like a zombie movie is kind of like the gold to hear movie.

If there was a zombie apocalypse, I would use my yodeling to kill every single one of them.

'The Walking Dead' do such a great job with that world. It is real, but it's also otherworldly; it's strangely theatrical, and I suddenly did become quite invested in the whole zombie phenomenon.

28 Days Later' is a favorite film of mine that communicates so much beyond the fun of a zombie movie.

I think zombies have always been an easy metaphor for hard times. Because they're this big, faceless, brainless group of evil things that will work tirelessly to destroy you and think of nothing else.

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 love zombies, and I love playing zombie-killing video games, so I was always super into the zombies, seeing how it all works and seeing the blood everywhere. I love that kind of stuff.

That's the thing about zombies. They don't adapt and they don't think. Literally, you could have a zombie on one side of a chain link fence and you could be on the other side and they could be trying to get to you and six feet down could be an open door and they will not go through that door in the fence. That's why they're so scary.

I think that's the great thing about zombies, is, you know, going back to even 'Night of the Living Dead,' they've always been a tool for kind of holding up a mirror to us and showing us something about ourselves that we might not otherwise know.

Most zombie stories, the problems they solve are not the actual zombies. The problems they solve are the human interactions.