I go to these horror conventions all the time, and these audiences get so deep into it. They've pulled apart every movie fifty ways from Sunday.

To me, the zombies have always just been zombies. They've always been a cigar. When I first made 'Night of the Living Dead,' it got analyzed and overanalyzed way out of proportion. The zombies were written about as if they represented Nixon's Silent Majority or whatever. But I never thought about it that way.

I've never had a zombie eat a brain! I don't know where that comes from. Who says zombies eat brains?

Horror films are the anchovies of the cinema. Either you like them, or you don't.

I'm basically a fairly traditional filmmaker.

Neighbors are frightening enough when they're alive.

When you're working with a low budget, the most expensive time is the time spent on the set. The words of the day are, 'Get off the set as quickly as possible,' and so CG enables you to do that.

Most of my stuff was sort of of-the-time. 'The Crazies' was, basically, we were angry about Vietnam, and it had a reason for being.

'Day of the Dead' remains my favourite zombie film of mine.

I won't say I'm uncompromising, but I won't compromise just for the hell of it.