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George A. Romero
George A. Romero
American Director
Born: Feb 4, 1940
Died: Jul 16, 2017
Dead Me People Think You Zombies
Related authors: David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Spike Lee Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen
If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart. George A. Romero
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I sit around listening to classical music. I don't play video games. I love to go to dinner, go on picnics, travel. George A. Romero
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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
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Nothing's ever real until it's real. George A. Romero
Nothing Until Real Ever
I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters. George A. Romero
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I don't think you need to spend $40 million to be creepy. The best horror films are the ones that are much less endowed. George A. Romero
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I expect a zombie to show up on 'Sesame Street' soon, teaching kids to count. George A. Romero
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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
God Me People Devil Sympathize Changed Rules Staying Dead Dead People Sure Am Even Villains Thing Zombies
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
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Basically, I'm an EC comic book guy, man. You can show me anything that's high-spirited horror, and I'll be there giggling. George A. Romero
Me You Man Book Guy Horror Comic Comic Book Anything Show Basically
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
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If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies. George A. Romero
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I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed. George A. Romero
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As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it! George A. Romero
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I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money. George A. Romero
You Money Free Think Only Huge Very Low Working
I really believe that you could do horror very inexpensively. I don't think it has anything to do with the effects, the effects are not the most important parts. George A. Romero
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The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director. George A. Romero
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I'll never get sick of zombies. I just get sick of producers. George A. Romero
Sick Never Get Just Producers Zombies
Movies are about escape. George A. Romero
About Escape Movies
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
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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. George A. Romero
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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
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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
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Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die. George A. Romero
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The two great things about computer CG stuff are I can now do gags I would never have dreamed of in the old day. George A. Romero
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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
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