George A. Romero

I've made six zombie films; I've tried consciously to make each one different from the next.

In 2007, 'Diary of the Dead' all of a sudden made money. I was blindsided by that.

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.

I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money.

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.

Neighbors are frightening enough when they're alive.

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.

The two great things about computer CG stuff are I can now do gags I would never have dreamed of in the old day.

A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.

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.

People called '28 Days' and '28 Weeks' zombie movies, and they're not! It's some sort of virus; they're not dead.

I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.