George Romero Quotes on Movies (10 Quotes)

It's gotta be scary, obviously, but I don't want to go crazy with it. I don't want to make another zombie film. I'd rather make a good action film involving zombies.

We're also doing a 3D Imax... which is really great fun... it's a ghost story that involves movies, and some of the movie monsters come to life. So, that's exciting, too, but in 3D Something I've always wanted to do.

We have two kids, so our family life is very sort of mundane... take the kids to school, ballet, baseball and all of that. I like to go see movies, travel... but I love being with the family... going to Disney or something like that.

All of a sudden, Pittsburgh became one of the places where all the movies were being shot... a lot of them. So, now I can't escape Pittsburgh. I can't get out of this town

I'm not wild and crazy, there's nothing going on here, if the Steelers were playing we'd go to a football game, or otherwise watch movies.

The big tickets come from a much younger audience and a different audience base. The midnight moviegoers were, like, movie fans people who were either into films or into particular films, and into them in either a sophisticated or a kind of quirky way.

I never liked the Friday The 13th movies, or any of that. It's just not my bag. It's a genre that I guess current audiences haven't seen in a while, or haven't seen at all. I have a 14-year-old daughter, and the first one of those she ever watched, she only watched because of peer pressure.

If I tried to make money for a Jane Austen movie, I'd get laughed out of the office.

I'd like to just stick to the game and try to make a really good action film.

A lot of people say my work borrows from Hitchcock, but I think if I've stolen... of COURSE I've stolen, this is a parasitic medium... but if I'm parasitic of anyone it's Welles, and Michael Pal and Kazan... those are my guys. The James Whale stuff... I LOVE the old BW movies, like classic paintings.