George A. Romero Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“I don't like the new trends in horror. All this torture stuff seems really mean-spirited. People have forgotten how to laugh, and I don't see anybody who's using it as allegory.”

“I grew up on the old EC comic books before the Comics Code in North American and with all sort of good-natured fun. I never had nightmares I think because all of the old horror stuff that I was exposed to was well meaning in a certain sense.”

“I really liked the helicopter pilot in 'Dawn of the Dead', when he gets bitten and comes out of the elevator. That guy was amazing. He did this incredible walk that we didn't even know about until we started shooting.”

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

“Anybody who tunes into Rush Limabaugh already knows what he's going to say and is already inclined to agree. So it winds up creating tribes.”

“As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!”

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

“Movies are about escape.”

“The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.”

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