Some men spend their lives watching bees and ants, noting down the habits of these insects; my pleasure is to watch the human mind, noting how unselfish instincts rise to the surface and sink back again, making way for selfish instincts, each equally necessary, for the world would perish were it to become entirely selfish or entirely unselfish.


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GEORGE A. ROMERO
I really believe that you could do horror very inexpensively. I don't think it has anything to do wi...
GEORGE A. ROMERO
A real program called Helping Hands... real monkeys are put in homes with handicapped or disabled pe...
GEORGE A. ROMERO
I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money.
GEORGE A. ROMERO
It costs so damn much to distribute a film now. That's the problem. Nobody wants to take that risk. ...
GEORGE A. ROMERO
I was trying to come up with a concept about a new society, revolutionary... in political terms, tha...
GEORGE A. ROMERO
I didn't like Scream too much. I thought Scream 2 was better.
GEORGE A. ROMERO
If I tried to make money for a Jane Austen movie, I'd get laughed out of the office.
GEORGE A. ROMERO
We have two kids, so our family life is very sort of mundane... take the kids to school, ballet, bas...
GEORGE A. ROMERO
There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it...
GEORGE A. ROMERO
The idea of living with terrorism - I've tried to make it more applicable to the concerns Americans ...
GEORGE A. ROMERO
I'd like to just stick to the game and try to make a really good action film.
GEORGE A. ROMERO
The studios aren't going to credit the genre as much as they are, you know, the marketing of an indi...
GEORGE A. ROMERO
I don't like all the deferential humor, I think it detracts. Laugh with it, not at it.
GEORGE A. ROMERO
The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.
GEORGE A. ROMERO
I like having to use ingenuity... When I'm pitching ideas, I say hey guys, the real scary stuff does...
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...
GEORGE A. ROMERO
I didn't play practical jokes at home. I had a strict upbringing, which is part of my rebellion. I w...
GEORGE A. ROMERO
I think people that love the genre giggle at it. I don't get grossed out, I giggle.
GEORGE A. ROMERO
In the horror genre, it's hard to find topics that'll really be scary for everyone... to get that su...
GEORGE A. ROMERO
My film collection is all oldies.
GEORGE A. ROMERO
There is something about the sameness people like. And what I've tried to do with all the zombie...
GEORGE A. ROMERO
Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God ...
GEORGE A. SMITH
A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail...
GEORGE A. ROMERO
There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it...
GEORGE A. ROMERO
When I grew up, there was no such thing as videotape, TV was B&W.
GEORGE A. ROMERO
Zombies are always moving fast in video games. It makes sense if you think about it. Those games are...
GEORGE A. ROMERO
I'm like my zombies. I won't stay dead!
GEORGE A. ROMERO
I expect a zombie to show up on 'Sesame Street' soon, teaching kids to count.
GEORGE A. ROMERO
I'll never get sick of zombies. I just get sick of producers.
GEORGE A. ROMERO
I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.
GEORGE A. ROMERO
Zombies to me don't represent anything in particular. They are a global disaster that people don...
GEORGE A. ROMERO
As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I ...
GEORGE A. ROMERO
I've seen so many young filmmakers - even professional filmmakers who get a Hollywood deal - the...
GEORGE A. ROMERO
I go to conventions and universities and talk to young filmmakers and everybody's making a zombi...
GEORGE A. ROMERO
If I go to a movie and it's particularly violent, and people are leaving the theatre ready to vo...
GEORGE A. ROMERO
Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
GEORGE A. SMITH
Comic books and radio were my escape. I even remember 3-D comic books where you put on the red-and-g...
GEORGE A. ROMERO
I have a very quiet life. There's nothing weird.
GEORGE A. ROMERO
Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs a...
GEORGE A. SMITH
'Night of the Living Dead,' then 'Dawn of the Dead' is a few weeks later, 'Day o...
GEORGE A. ROMERO
A lot of my friends are people who do horror films: Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Stephen King.
GEORGE A. ROMERO
The horror films that I've made have been satirical in one way or another or political, and I re...
GEORGE A. ROMERO
The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.
GEORGE A. SHEEHAN
It was like hundreds of roads he'd driven over - no different - a stretch of tar, lusterless, scaley...
GEORGE A. ZORN
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
A. A. MILNE
What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
A. A. MILNE
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
A. A. MILNE