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“'Martin' is my favorite film of mine and 'Knightriders' a close second.”
“I'm a Turner Classic Movies guy. That's it. I'd much rather sit here and watch an oldie than anything new.”
“I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money.”
“I like to use horror as allegory.”
“I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.”
“After 'Land,' I wanted to do something about emerging media and citizen journalism, so I got this idea for 'Diary of the Dead.'”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.”
“Because of 'World War Z' and 'The Walking Dead,' I can't pitch a modest little zombie film which is meant to be sociopolitical.”
“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.”
“The two great things about computer CG stuff are I can now do gags I would never have dreamed of in the old day.”
“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.”
“The grotesque has never really affected or frightened me. I guess it's real-life stuff that frightens me much more.”
“The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.”
“I'd love to make a film like 'Pan's Labyrinth.'”
“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.”
“If I go to a movie and it's particularly violent, and people are leaving the theatre ready to vomit, we're sitting there with our popcorn just chuckling.”