Allegory Quote by George A. Romero Download Open image “I like to use horror as allegory.” — George A. Romero ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Allegory Horror Like Use
Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Horror is my favorite genre, but it works best for me when it's a metaphor on top of something we can all relate to. — Misha Green Copy Share Image
Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares. — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image
Horror is one of the few genres that allows you to explore areas in film that normally you wouldn't otherwise. — Lydia Hearst Copy Share Image
I never actually wanted to write horror, oddly enough. It was a kind of misnomer, because I didn't ever actually write horror in the… — Peter James Copy Share Image
I think the best horror is often a metaphor or keys into people's real life paranoia. — Ti West Copy Share Image
I love a couple of Fulci things. I just had a gas watching them. It's not what I would do, but I loved watching… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
People say you're trapped in this genre. You're a horror guy. I say wait a minute - I'm able to say exactly what I… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
I've seen so many young filmmakers - even professional filmmakers who get a Hollywood deal - they don't quite know where to begin, where… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I saw 'Dracula,' 'Frankenstein,' 'The Wolf Man,' 'The Invisible Man.' I saw all those guys on the big screen at RKO in the Bronx.… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
I'm telling you, man, after I did 'Land of the Dead,' which Mark Canton produced, Universal picked it up, and I had to use… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money. — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
'Night of the Living Dead,' then 'Dawn of the Dead' is a few weeks later, 'Day of the Dead' months later, and 'Land of… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the real horror is next door to us, that the scariest monsters are our neighbors. — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a weird category, because it's the only area of fiction I can think of where the story is not of primary… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“However, as a guarantee of its renewed youth, the symbolical phoenix never reappeared before the eyes of the world without having consumed solemnly the… — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share Image
The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it could not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“The Durhannians' countenance lifted as is the way of Hope. There was a village elder whose eyes flickered with the light of Understanding. We… — Laurie Green Westlake Copy Share Image
“This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it to be… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“On this material plane, each living being is like a street lantern lamp with a dirty lampshade. The inside flame burns evenly and is… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
