51 Quotes by George Romero

There are still some wonderful child actors out there.

It costs so damn much to distribute a film now. That's the problem. Nobody wants to take that risk. It's very, very frustrating. There's almost no such thing as a little movie.

I think today's audiences, the audiences that make the big money for a studio, are out for whatever the latest event picture is, or the must-see stuff. I think it's a different crowd.

I think the monsters today are all CG and look beautiful and move perfectly... I don't think that they've lost it, I just think they're bigger and more grotesque, the bugs in Starship Troopers or Godzilla, whatever.

Pictures that test great go out and go in the toilet. And pictures that test poorly, all of a sudden they'll come out of the pack and people like them, but they don't get a chance because a studio won't really get behind it if it tests poorly. It's a mess. I mean, it's really a mess.

I was the spic kid who was getting beat up by the golden guineas in the Bronx. I had to be past the gang on my way home from school. You feel like a faceless member of society.

I was very into Arthurian myth. I had always read all the White stuff, devour the stuff.

I think people that love the genre giggle at it. I don't get grossed out, I giggle.

I was mugged once, which really scared me, and we had a manually controlled elevator in the building. This guy jumped me, he had broken the door... the glass of the street door and he had a big sliver of that and held it to my throat. That was the scariest thing that ever happened to me. He just wanted my credit cards.