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“For me, tribalism and religion are basically the big reasons we're in trouble. Patriotism, tribalism, and religion.”
“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.”
“Zombies are my ticket to ride! It's how I get a deal! I don't care what they are. I don't care where they came from.”
“A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.”
“My zombies will never take over the world because I need the humans. The humans are the ones I dislike the most, and they're where the trouble really lies.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.”
“I do think of my films as morality plays, even though my reputation is, you know, splatter films and like that. But I think of them as very moral.”
“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.”
“Film is a very expensive medium.”
“Nursery rhymes were political when they were first written! To me, that's what it's about: it's about using it to say something more than just what the story is.”
“My zombie films were all sort of satirical, with political messages. So I was doing them inexpensively and quietly off in left field somewhere.”
“I'm like my zombies. I won't stay dead!”
“I remember when John Cameron Swayze over the television told me personally that the Russians now had the atomic bomb; then I knew that we were goners.”
“I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.”
“I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed.”
“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.”
“I vote in the Academy, so I get all the screeners. I'm so often disappointed by all the material and especially by what wins. I find myself never voting for the winner.”
“I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.”