3 December 2020 George A. Romero People called ’28 Days’ and ’28 Weeks’ zombie movies, and they’re not! It’s some sort of virus they’re not dead.
3 December 2020 George A. Romero Ever since ‘Lassie’ and ‘Old Yeller’, I won’t watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.
3 December 2020 George A. Romero 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.
3 December 2020 George A. Romero The guy that made me wanna make movies… and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.
3 December 2020 George A. Romero When I was old enough to go to movies alone, I got to see ‘Frankenstein’ and ‘Dracula’ on the big screen. I just fell in love with them.
3 December 2020 George A. Romero 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.
3 December 2020 George A. Romero For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings – by classmates, not the nuns – was to be the funny guy.
3 December 2020 George A. Romero 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.