George A. Romero

My film collection is all oldies.

— George A. Romero

Movies are about escape.

— George A. Romero

I love 'Shaun of the Dead.'

— George A. Romero

I like to use horror as allegory.

— George A. Romero

Zombies are the blue-collar monsters

— George A. Romero

Zombies cannot run.

— George A. Romero

Nothing's ever real until it's real.

— George A. Romero

Nothings ever real until its real.

— George A. Romero

I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money.

— George A. Romero

I'm basically a fairly traditional filmmaker.

— George A. Romero

There are very few horror films that I think are worth their salt.

— George A. Romero

I always have CNN on. That's where I get my ideas.

— George A. Romero

I have a very quiet life. There's nothing weird.

— George A. Romero

The only advice you can give is, 'Don't let the bad stuff keep you down.'

— George A. Romero

You can get an audience no matter what your opinion is.

— George A. Romero

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

— George A. Romero

Horror films are the anchovies of the cinema. Either you like them, or you don't.

— George A. Romero

I won't say I'm uncompromising, but I won't compromise just for the hell of it.

— George A. Romero

I liked the '28 Days Later' films, but they're not zombies; they're not dead. They're not using it in the same way.

— George A. Romero

I'm more alarmed by people reacting violently to the violence in my films than I am by the violence in films.

— George A. Romero

I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.

— George A. Romero

I've made six zombie films; I've tried consciously to make each one different from the next.

— George A. Romero

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

— George A. Romero

I go to these horror conventions all the time, and these audiences get so deep into it. They've pulled apart every movie…

— George A. Romero

My stuff is my stuff. I do it for my own reasons, using my own peculiar set of guidelines. I'm not a…

— George A. Romero

I wanted 'Night of the Living Dead' to look naturalistic, but we weren't able to do it because we were shooting with…

— George A. Romero

I vote in the Academy, so I get all the screeners. I'm so often disappointed by all the material and especially by…

— George A. Romero

As movie monsters go, zombies are the most human. They were human at one time. So we are confronted with ourselves in…

— George A. Romero

I saw 'Dracula,' 'Frankenstein,' 'The Wolf Man,' 'The Invisible Man.' I saw all those guys on the big screen at RKO in…

— George A. Romero

My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us,…

— George A. Romero

I did 'Land of the Dead,' which was the biggest zombie film I had ever made. I don't think it needed to…

— George A. Romero

At the time we did 'Night,' I was a director of television commercials. Some of them cost a lot more than our…

— George A. Romero

Hollywood doesn't trust me, and we don't really mix. When a movie has stars, everything in the budget goes up, even the…

— George A. Romero

It is amazing to me how deeply into the popular culture the creature has become. There are zombie walks in every major…

— George A. Romero

Pittsburgh, for a while, became a production centre. There was one $400 million year. Hollywood was bringing productions in there. Films like…

— George A. Romero

With 'Dawn,' I wanted the slick look; I wanted to bring out the nature of the shopping center, the retail displays, the…

— George A. Romero

When I was growing up, I actually went through, in New York City, blackouts when we had to close the windows and…

— George A. Romero

“Tony Williams: You’ve often mentioned that Tales of Hoffmann (1951) has been a major influence on you. George Romero: It was the…

— George A. Romero

To me, the zombies have always just been zombies. They've always been a cigar. When I first made 'Night of the Living…

— George A. Romero

I'm telling you, man, after I did 'Land of the Dead,' which Mark Canton produced, Universal picked it up, and I had…

— George A. Romero