183 Quotes by George A. Romero

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

I don’t want a zombie society. I don’t want to go that far.

You can fall on your face easily if you go off in a certain direction. The Birds is a good example, some people are really phobic about birds flying over their heads, and some don’t care. So, it’s a personal thing.

There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it with, and somehow forget the movie. You can’t forgive the movie for a long time. It takes a few years to look at it with any objectivity and forgive its flaws.

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

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.

I really believe that you could do horror very inexpensively. I don’t think it has anything to do with the effects, the effects are not the most important parts.

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.

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.