Quotes by George A. Romero - Page 3

I thought Godzilla was a mess, the monster had no character and the humans didn't either. They forgot to make the movie that went along with all these wonderful effects.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Effects
Godzilla
Humans
Mess
Forgot
Monster
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I wanted 'Night of the Living Dead' to look naturalistic, but we weren't able to do it because we were shooting with a blimped 35mm camera, which is automatically static.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Shooting
Static
Automatically
Camera
Dead
Naturalistic
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As movie monsters go, zombies are the most human. They were human at one time. So we are confronted with ourselves in a way, which is much more frightening and disturbing.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Disturbing
Frightening
Monsters
One Time
Time Way Human
Confronted
Zombies
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Horror will always be there, it always comes back, it's a familiar genre that some people, not everyone - it's sort of the cinema anchovies. You either like it or you don't.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Cinema
Familiar
Genre
Always People Will
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The horror films that I've made have been satirical in one way or another or political, and I really think that's the purpose of horror. I don't see that happening very often.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Satirical
Horror Films
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I don't like the new trends in horror. All this torture stuff seems really mean-spirited. People have forgotten how to laugh, and I don't see anybody who's using it as allegory.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Allegory
Forgotten
Torture
People New See
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Back then, in 1968, everything was suspect - family, government, and obviously the family unit in 'Night of the Living Dead' completely collapses. That's what we were focused on.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Family Unit
Suspect
Unit
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I think zombies would fit in anywhere. You can tell any story, and put zombies in it. I don't know how I'd find the backing, but I think it'd be great to make a zombie gangster movie.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Fit
Thinking
Zombie
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I sympathize with the zombies and am not even sure they are villains. To me they are this earth-changing thing. God or the devil changed the rules, and dead people are not staying dead.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Dead People
Devil
Staying
God Me People
Sympathize
Villains
Zombies
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Zombies are always moving fast in video games. It makes sense if you think about it. Those games are all about hand-eye coordination and how quickly can you get them before they get you.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Coordination
Eye
Moving
Thinking
Video
Quickly
Video Games
Zombies
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I go to conventions and universities and talk to young filmmakers and everybody's making a zombie movie! It's because it's easy to get the neighbors to come out, put some ketchup on them.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Conventions
Easy
Neighbor
Zombie
Neighbors
Universities
Young Filmmakers
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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.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Expensive
Budget
Enables
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As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Movie
Wisdom
Bananas
Julia
Pay
Banana
Carry
Harris
Julia Roberts
Million
Out Here
Roberts
Second
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The 'Dead' films allow me to talk about things that a drama, say, won't. 'Dawn Of The Dead,' which was set in a shopping mall, is on one level about consumerism; 'Land Of The Dead' is a response to Bush.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Consumerism
Dawn
Response
Shopping
Mall
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My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Respect
Humans
Pointing
Stories
Try
Possible
Fail
Finger
React
Sympathize
Zombies
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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.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Bird
Fall
People
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I really liked the helicopter pilot in 'Dawn of the Dead', when he gets bitten and comes out of the elevator. That guy was amazing. He did this incredible walk that we didn't even know about until we started shooting.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Dawn
Shooting
Bitten
Elevator
Helicopter
Pilot
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I did 'Land of the Dead,' which was the biggest zombie film I had ever made. I don't think it needed to be that big. That money went largely to the cast. They were great, but I don't think that money needed to be spent.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Zombie
Largely
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There is something about the sameness people like. And what I've tried to do with all the zombie films is purposely make them different. That may be part of why it takes so long for people to see what it's intended to be.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Sameness
Zombie
Long People See
Intended
Purposely
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'Night of the Living Dead,' then 'Dawn of the Dead' is a few weeks later, 'Day of the Dead' months later, and 'Land of the Dead' is three years later. Each one spoke about a different decade and was stylistically different.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Dawn
Decade
Each One
Stylistically
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I used to be able to pitch them on the basis of the zombie action, and I could hide the message inside that. Now, you can't. The moment you mention the word 'zombie,' it's got to be, 'Hey, Brad Pitt paid $400 million to do that.'
George A. Romero / Film Director
Brad
Hey
Zombie
Brad Pitt
Hide
Mention
Pitt
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With CG, I can do more and be sillier. In 'Diary,' there's a scene where they hit a guy with acid, and the camera is never off him, and you see it gradually eat through his skull and get all the way through his brain. That's fun, too.
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Acid
Diary
Gradually
Skull
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Somehow I've been able to keep standing and stay in my little corner and do my little stuff and I'm not particularly affected by trends or I'm not dying to make a 3D movie or anything like that. I'm just sort of happy to still be around.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Dying
Standing
Corner
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I saw 'Dracula,' 'Frankenstein,' 'The Wolf Man,' 'The Invisible Man.' I saw all those guys on the big screen at RKO in the Bronx. I just always loved that stuff. I loved other stuff, too. That's the thing. That wasn't all I wanted to be.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Big Screen
Bronx
Invisible
Dracula
Frankenstein
Wolf
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At the time we did 'Night,' I was a director of television commercials. Some of them cost a lot more than our whole movie. They were very slick, sophisticated... we wanted the opposite look for 'Night.' We wanted it to look like a newsreel.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Slick
Sophisticated
Time Look Night
Commercials
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I grew up on the old EC comic books before the Comics Code in North American and with all sort of good-natured fun. I never had nightmares I think because all of the old horror stuff that I was exposed to was well meaning in a certain sense.
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Code
Comic
Exposed
Good-Natured
North American
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'The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me. But the one that made me want to make movies was 'The Tales of Hoffman.' That's my favorite film of all time. It's a fantasy film. It's an opera. I never get tired of it.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Fantasy
Opera
Scared
Tales
Tired
Time Movies World
Favorite
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My films, I've tried to put a message into them. It's not about the gore; it's not about the horror element that are in them. It's more about the message, for me. That's what it is, and I'm using this platform to be able to show my feelings of what I think.
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Gore
Element
Platform
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First of all, in the old days, if you wanted to show someone getting shot on film, all you could do was place an effect in the original take. And if you wanted to brighten somebody's face and leave the rest of the room dark, that was a very expensive process.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Expensive
Old Days
Shot
Brighten
Effect
First Of All
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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.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Factors
Long Time
Objectivity
Thinking
Years
Time Long Look
Time Long Your
Forgive
Time Look Long
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As a filmmaker, I love the medium. I have a great affection for it and I've been lucky enough to do all different kinds of films. The greatest part of the success I've had comes from horror. I love the idea of mixing humor and horror and to me, it's all a giggle.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Different
Ideas
Mixing
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On the other side of that coin, and far outweighing it, is the fact that I've been able to use genre of Fantasy/Horror and express my opinion, talk a little about society, do a little bit of satire and that's been great, man. A lot of people don't have that platform.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Genre
Satire
Society Great Man
Coin
Express
Great Man
Platform
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It would be very hard to write a serious drama and say some of these things. You can be much more abstract and allusive with horror, and it's very forgiving to the author. You don't necessarily have to take an absolutely positive position. You can just write whatever.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Drama
Forgiving
Writing
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I've seen so many young filmmakers - even professional filmmakers who get a Hollywood deal - they don't quite know where to begin, where to end, and they'll waste a lot of time making this perfect shot, an establishing shot, and then there's no time left to shoot the dialogue.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Dialogue
Waste
Establishing
No Time
Young Filmmakers
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In the old days, there were three networks, and all of a sudden, Walter Cronkite is the most trusted man in America. Everybody believes what he says, not even thinking. In those days, we didn't even know it was being spun. We were very willing to just listen to it and go along with.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Old Days
Spun
Trusted
Willing
Believes
Networks
Cronkite
Sudden
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Comic books and radio were my escape. I even remember 3-D comic books where you put on the red-and-green glasses and Mighty Mouse would punch you in the face. It was the literature of the day for kids my age who were too bored with listening to 'Peter and the Wolf' on the record player.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Bored
Comic
Glasses
Literature
Peter
Radio
Escape
Record
Mighty
Mouse
Punch
Record Player
Wolf
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People say you're trapped in this genre. You're a horror guy. I say wait a minute - I'm able to say exactly what I think. I'm able to talk about, comment about, take snapshots of what's going on at the time. I don't feel trapped. I feel like this is my way of being able to express myself.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Comment
Trapped
Exactly What
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When we made 'Night of the Living Dead,' we got riddled. There was this famous article Roger Ebert wrote just blasting the film because he had gone to see it at some screening where there were all these kids in the audience. I don't know why that happened. We didn't make the movie for kids.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Roger
Screening
Article
Blasting
Riddled
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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.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Administration
Comic Book
Consumerism
Loaded
Tales
Bush Administration
Puns
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When you are working with low budgets and you have a gunshot with a squib and it goes wrong - the gun flash does not synchronize with the squib or whatever - it takes half an hour or 40 minutes to clean it all up and reset it. It's much easier to use a computer to paint in the flash and splatter.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Budgets
Clean
Computer
Easier
Flash
Gun
Half
Minutes
Paint
Hour
Low
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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.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Proportion
Silent
Always Me Night
Analyzed
Nixon
Zombies
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I'm telling you, man, after I did 'Land of the Dead,' which Mark Canton produced, Universal picked it up, and I had to use stars. I didn't think I needed stars - Dennis Hopper was in it. I loved him. We hung out. I loved him, but his cigar budget was more than we paid for the entire budget of 'Night of the Living Dead.'
George A. Romero / Film Director
Hung
Mark
Needed
Night
Paid
Stars
Budget
Loved
Dead
Entire
Picked
Produced
Telling
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Pittsburgh, for a while, became a production centre. There was one $400 million year. Hollywood was bringing productions in there. Films like 'The Silence of the Lambs' and 'Innocent Blood.' So my guys, the guys I worked with, were able to have careers and live at home. But then it dried up, and a lot of my friends left.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Careers
Centre
Innocent
Lambs
Pittsburgh
Productions
Silence
Bringing
Dried
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One thing about a film production is that it must run efficiently; there is no room for dead wood. So somebody that hangs around by the coffee wagon won't get hired again, but somebody who is dedicated and works hard and really puts out will get noticed by the people that matter around there and will get asked to come back again.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Coffee
Dedicated
Must People Will
By The People
Efficiently
Noticed
Puts
Wagon
Wood
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When I was growing up, I actually went through, in New York City, blackouts when we had to close the windows and worry about air raids. I don't know whether or not those were realistic worries or not, but as a kid, when we all had to run around pulling down the drapes and turning the lights off; it was a very frightening experience.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Frightening
New York City
Realistic
Experience City New
Turning
Lights
Windows
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With 'Dawn,' I wanted the slick look; I wanted to bring out the nature of the shopping center, the retail displays, the mannequins. There are times when maybe you reflect that the mannequins are more attractive but less real - less sympathetic, even - than the zombies. Put those kinds of images side by side, and you raise all sorts of questions.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Attractive
Dawn
Retail
Shopping
Slick
Sympathetic
Side
Bring
Center
Images
Maybe
Raise
Reflect
Zombies
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Hollywood doesn't trust me, and we don't really mix. When a movie has stars, everything in the budget goes up, even the catering costs. I just don't like the process of having Suits all around, so I prefer casting unknowns. It adds another level of tension - you don't quite know what to expect from them. My movies don't even need that much money.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Catering
Tension
Trust Me
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It is amazing to me how deeply into the popular culture the creature has become. There are zombie walks in every major city. I live in Toronto, and last year 3,000 people came out dressed as zombies.... I do not get it. Maybe it's an easy costume: Splash some ketchup on and rip up your jeans -- although most people already have torn jeans -- and you're done.
George A. Romero / Film Director
Jeans
Rip
Years
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