Quotes About Fear

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

I happen to like vampires more than zombies.

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.

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.

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

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.

Zombies are apocalyptic. I think that's why people love them because we're living in, not apocalyptic times, but I think we're living in fear of the apocalyptic times.

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

Because we've never encountered a decomposing body, we can only assume they are out to get us. It is no wonder there is a cultural fascination with zombies.

Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them.

If I was in a zombie apocalypse, I wouldn't be playing music, because that would attract zombies.

I really believe zombies are a threat to our national security.

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.

Zombies, mummies - they're disgusting and gross. You don't want to make out with a mummy. At least, I don't.

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.

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 think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that you have to go find them. You have to make a conscious choice to go to the swamp or the desert or the abandoned summer camp.

I do like the zombie movies quite a bit. I know there are purist zombie guys that don't like the running zombies, but I dig the infected thing. I think that's a scarier incorporation of an element into the genre.

Everything scares me. I'm very easily frightened. But the thing that scares me most is zombies. I really, really don't like zombies.

All cultures have had a belief in ghosts and a fear of ghosts. People have always told stories, and everybody likes being frightened, especially when you feel safe. Personally, I find them scarier than vampires or zombies.

Zombies cannot run.