George A. Romero

I'm like my zombies. I won't stay dead!

— George A. Romero

I love a couple of Fulci things. I just had a gas watching them. It's not what I would do, but I…

— George A. Romero

People say you're trapped in this genre. You're a horror guy. I say wait a minute - I'm able to say exactly…

— George A. Romero

Zombies are the blue-collar monsters

— George A. Romero

Collaborate, don't dictate.

— George A. Romero

I've seen so many young filmmakers - even professional filmmakers who get a Hollywood deal - they don't quite know where to…

— George A. Romero

I'm a Turner Classic Movies guy. That's it. I'd much rather sit here and watch an oldie than anything new.

— 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

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

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

— George A. Romero

'Night of the Living Dead,' then 'Dawn of the Dead' is a few weeks later, 'Day of the Dead' months later, and…

— George A. Romero

I've always felt that the real horror is next door to us, that the scariest monsters are our neighbors.

— George A. Romero

It would be very hard to write a serious drama and say some of these things. You can be much more abstract…

— George A. Romero

When you are working with low budgets and you have a gunshot with a squib and it goes wrong - the gun…

— George A. Romero

I don't think you need to spend $40 million to be creepy. The best horror films are the ones that are much…

— George A. Romero

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

— George A. Romero

The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.

— George A. Romero

There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it with,…

— George A. Romero

Some directors work from day to day. I work from moment to moment.

— George A. Romero

For me, tribalism and religion are basically the big reasons we're in trouble. Patriotism, tribalism, and religion.

— 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 thought Godzilla was a mess, the monster had no character and the humans didn't either. They forgot to make the movie…

— George A. Romero

I'm basically a fairly traditional filmmaker.

— George A. Romero

When you're shooting super-low-budget - we had 20 days to shoot 'Diary,' and a little over $2 - time is money.

— 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