183 Quotes by 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, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible.

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

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.

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

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

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.

If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

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 really lies.

I'll never get sick of zombies. I just get sick of producers.