51 Quotes by George Romero

Most of the European money now is off TV, and they're having a hard time now with anything that pushes the envelope.

We're also doing a 3D Imax... which is really great fun... it's a ghost story that involves movies, and some of the movie monsters come to life. So, that's exciting, too, but in 3D! Something I've always wanted to do.

We have two kids, so our family life is very sort of mundane... take the kids to school, ballet, baseball and all of that. I like to go see movies, travel... but I love being with the family... going to Disney or something like that.

We lived in the Bronx, didn't have a lot of dough and it was quiet until I went away to go to school. Cut the bonds and went crazy. Studied painting and design for three years at Carnegie Mellon and transferred to the drama department and decided that I WAS Orson Welles. I'd actually go around in a cape and do things like that.

I've been in development hell. I've got about four projects out there now, all with studios. They keep paying me to rewrite and do this and that. It's literally all the sad tales you hear about development. It's awful.

The studios aren't going to credit the genre as much as they are, you know, the marketing of an individual thing, or whatever it was. They'll try to imitate it. They want something that has the same things-young stars from TV. They think they have the formula worked out. I just think it's a fool's game.

People go to those screenings, and you don't get honest answers. You get wise-aleck answers, and you get this whole array of different personalities and people having something to say about what you should do.

A real program called Helping Hands... real monkeys are put in homes with handicapped or disabled people. They can get you your lunch, answer the door, turn the TV or music on... like having a little helper. They're raised on Discovery Island at Disney World, and you can adopt them!

Young audiences today have seen a lot of those movies but only on video, there haven't been any new stuff.