George A. Romero

George Andrew Romero was an American-Canadian filmmaker, writer and editor, best known for his series of gruesome and satirical horror films about an imagined zombie apocalypse, beginning with Night of the Living Dead (1968), which is often considered a progenitor of the fictional zombie of modern culture. Other films in the series include Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Day of the Dead (1985).

Date of birth:
4th February, 1940
Date of death:
16th July, 2017
"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."
― George A. Romero
Topic(s): Wisdom
"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."
― George A. Romero
Topic(s): Society
"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."
― George A. Romero
Topic(s): Respect
"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."
― George A. Romero
Topic(s): Movies
"Ever since ‘Lassie’ and ‘Old Yeller’, I won’t watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die."
― George A. Romero
Topic(s): Movies
"Movies are about escape."
― George A. Romero
Topic(s): Movies
"People called ’28 Days’ and ’28 Weeks’ zombie movies, and they’re not! It’s some sort of virus; they’re not dead."
― George A. Romero
Topic(s): Movies
"The guy that made me wanna make movies… and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director."
― George A. Romero
Topic(s): Movies
"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."
― George A. Romero
Topic(s): Funny
"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."
― George A. Romero
Topic(s): Amazing

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