183 Quotes by George A. Romero

I do think of my films as morality plays, even though my reputation is, you know, splatter films and like that. But I think of them as very moral.

I want 'Dawn' to play like a cowboys and Indians movie.

A lot of my friends are people who do horror films: Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Stephen King.

After 'Land,' I wanted to do something about emerging media and citizen journalism, so I got this idea for 'Diary of the Dead.'

When you're shooting super-low-budget - we had 20 days to shoot 'Diary,' and a little over $2 - time is money.

I grew up on EC comic books and 'Tales From the Crypt,' which were all loaded with humor, bad jokes, and puns. I can have that kind of fun and make these comic book movies but, at the same time, talk about things I want to talk about - whether it's consumerism or the Bush administration or war.

Nothing's ever real until it's real.

I like to use horror as allegory.

My zombie films were all sort of satirical, with political messages. So I was doing them inexpensively and quietly off in left field somewhere.