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43 quotes by George A. Romero

George Andrew Romero (/rəˈmɛroʊ/; born February 4, 1940) is an American-Canadian film director, film producer, screenwriter and editor, best known for his series of gruesome and satirical horror films about a hypothetical zombie apocalypse, beginning with Night of the Living Dead (1968).
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I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.

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A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.

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

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My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to... →

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For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.

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I can't really make fun of zombies. They're not liars. They're not cheats.

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I expect a zombie to show up on 'Sesame Street' soon, teaching kids to count.

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If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.

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My zombies will never take over the world because I need the humans. The humans are the ones I dislike the most, and they're where the trouble... →

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People called '28 Days' and '28 Weeks' zombie movies, and they're not! It's some sort of virus; they're not dead.

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When I was old enough to go to movies alone, I got to see 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' on the big screen. I just fell in love with... →

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I go to conventions and universities and talk to young filmmakers and everybody's making a zombie movie! It's because it's easy to get... →

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On the other side of that coin, and far outweighing it, is the fact that I've been able to use genre of Fantasy/Horror and express my opinion... →

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