I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed.

The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.

The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.

I thought Godzilla was a mess, the monster had no character and the humans didn't either. They forgot to make the movie that went along with all these wonderful effects.

As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.

There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it with, and somehow forget the movie. You can't forgive the movie for a long time. It takes a few years to look at it with any objectivity and forgive its flaws.

If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!

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 like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed.

I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.

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

If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

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

Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.

For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.

Horror will always be there, it always comes back, it's a familiar genre that some people, not everyone - it's sort of the cinema anchovies. You either like it or you don't.

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

I can't really make fun of zombies. They're not liars. They're not cheats.

I don't think you need to spend $40 million to be creepy. The best horror films are the ones that are much less endowed.

I expect a zombie to show up on 'Sesame Street' soon, teaching kids to count.

I go to conventions and universities and talk to young filmmakers and everybody's making a zombie movie! It's because it's easy to get the neighbors to come out, put some ketchup on them.

I grew up on the old EC comic books before the Comics Code in North American and with all sort of good-natured fun. I never had nightmares I think because all of the old horror stuff that I was exposed to was well meaning in a certain sense.

I keep a little notebook of things that I can do to the zombies that might be silly and fun.

I really liked the helicopter pilot in 'Dawn of the Dead', when he gets bitten and comes out of the elevator. That guy was amazing. He did this incredible walk that we didn't even know about until we started shooting.

I sympathize with the zombies and am not even sure they are villains. To me they are this earth-changing thing. God or the devil changed the rules, and dead people are not staying dead.

I'll never get sick of zombies. I just get sick of producers.

My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible.

My zombies will never take over the world because I need the humans. The humans are the ones I dislike the most, and they're where the trouble really lies.

On the other side of that coin, and far outweighing it, is the fact that I've been able to use genre of Fantasy/Horror and express my opinion, talk a little about society, do a little bit of satire and that's been great, man. A lot of people don't have that platform.

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

When I was old enough to go to movies alone, I got to see 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' on the big screen. I just fell in love with them.

Zombies are always moving fast in video games. It makes sense if you think about it. Those games are all about hand-eye coordination and how quickly can you get them before they get you.

The zombie was just an intriguing character; it is a sympathetic character.

I actually get a lot of messages with people saying, 'What's a Marvin Gaye?' and, I mean... Oh, wow. I must be getting old, because someone who was born in 2004 just asked me what a Marvin Gaye was.

Men are all right for friends but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers even the wild ones.

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

We are all naturally xenophobic.

When you fight for the impossible, sometimes you lose everything.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Step out on faith and walk into your purpose.

I really enjoy not getting in a car and running errands on bikes.

If you want to be the best salesperson, first you must be the best person.

Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

To be part of something special, to be an Olympian and have the chance to win a medal - it's an amazing feeling.

The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.

Life in the restaurant business can provide a start in the working world for young people or a stable living for many Americans and their families.

I was lucky that one of my first movies, 'One Million Years B.C.' was made in Europe by a British company. The Brits, and a lot of the rest of Europe, seemed to really love exotic women. The fact that I was American and exotic just made me more appealing to them.