American - Director | February 4, 1940 - July 16, 2017
When you are working with low budgets and you have a gunshot with a squib and it goes wrong - the gun flash does not synchronize with the squib or whatever - it takes half an hour or 40 minutes to clean it all up and reset it. It's much easier to use a computer to paint in the flash and splatter.
George A. Romero
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I will never make a film where zombies are threatening to take over the planet.
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The grotesque has never really affected or frightened me. I guess it's real-life stuff that frightens me much more.
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The main thing people took from 'Night of the Living Dead' was that it was a racial statement movie, and that was completely unintended.
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I won't say I'm uncompromising, but I won't compromise just for the hell of it.
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Pittsburgh, for a while, became a production centre. There was one $400 million year. Hollywood was bringing productions in there. Films like 'The Silence of the Lambs' and 'Innocent Blood.' So my guys, the guys I worked with, were able to have careers and live at home. But then it dried up, and a lot of my friends left.
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'Day of the Dead' remains my favourite zombie film of mine.
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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.
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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.
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Neighbors are frightening enough when they're alive.
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I'm basically a fairly traditional filmmaker.
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Horror films are the anchovies of the cinema. Either you like them, or you don't.
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