Quotes About Romero

The main thing people took from 'Night of the Living Dead' was that it was a racial statement movie, and that was completely unintended.

A lot of my friends are people who do horror films: Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Stephen King.

Nursery rhymes were political when they were first written! To me, that's what it's about: it's about using it to say something more than just what the story is.

I love Carpenter, I love Craven - these are all the classics - the Romeros of the world, but I think the biggest influence on me as a storyteller and as a filmmaker is actually Steven Spielberg. I love that even though Steven isn't known for being a horror director, he started out his career making scary movies.

Romero's stepfather knew something was up when an officer working on a classified Russian dogfight simulation asked him if his stepson was interested in a part-time job.