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People called 28 Days and 28 Weeks zombie movies, and they're not! It's some sort of virus; they're not dead.
I'm more alarmed by people reacting violently to the violence in my films than I am by the violence in films.
When you're shooting super-low-budget - we had 20 days to shoot 'Diary,' and a little over $2 - time is money.
I don't want to do 'Beyond the Planet of the Apes.' I don't want a zombie society. I don't want to go that far.
The two great things about computer CG stuff are I can now do gags I would never have dreamed of in the old day.
People called '28 Days' and '28 Weeks' zombie movies, and they're not! It's some sort of virus; they're not dead.
I liked the '28 Days Later' films, but they're not zombies; they're not dead. They're not using it in the same way.
The grotesque has never really affected or frightened me. I guess it's real-life stuff that frightens me much more.
For me, tribalism and religion are basically the big reasons we're in trouble. Patriotism, tribalism, and religion.
I sit around listening to classical music. I don't play video games. I love to go to dinner, go on picnics, travel.
I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.
Zombies are my ticket to ride! It's how I get a deal! I don't care what they are. I don't care where they came from.
The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.
Just because I'm showing somebody being disemboweled doesn't mean that I have to get heavy and put a message behind it.
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.
Zombies to me don't represent anything in particular. They are a global disaster that people don't know how to deal with.
My opinion of a good zombie walk is to loll your head as if it's a little too heavy and the muscles have begun to atrophy.
Basically, I'm an EC comic book guy, man. You can show me anything that's high-spirited horror, and I'll be there giggling.
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!
A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.
Because of 'World War Z' and 'The Walking Dead,' I can't pitch a modest little zombie film which is meant to be sociopolitical.
After 'Land,' I wanted to do something about emerging media and citizen journalism, so I got this idea for 'Diary of the Dead.'
I didn't much care for the 'Dawn' remake. It was a well-made action movie but really wasn't anything like my 'Dawn Of The Dead.'
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.
I love a couple of Fulci things. I just had a gas watching them. It's not what I would do, but I loved watching them. They were fun.
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.
If you look to the few films that have been really successful, 'Insidious,' 'Paranormal Activity,' it's all basically the old monsters.
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.
The main thing people took from 'Night of the Living Dead' was that it was a racial statement movie, and that was completely unintended.
Is Michael Moore an honest documentarian? Honestly? I don't think he is... The real discussion gets left behind the entertainment value.
Anybody who tunes into Rush Limabaugh already knows what he's going to say and is already inclined to agree. So it winds up creating tribes.
I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.
The hardest thing when you're making a zombie movie is, 'How am I going to kill these zombies? I need a clever way to knock these guys off.'
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.
My zombie films were all sort of satirical, with political messages. So I was doing them inexpensively and quietly off in left field somewhere.
I go to these horror conventions all the time, and these audiences get so deep into it. They've pulled apart every movie fifty ways from Sunday.
Collaborate, don't dictate. Every department head has something to offer. Listen and gratefully accept their offerings. They're moviemakers, too.
I do think of my films as morality plays, even though my reputation is, you know, splatter films and like that. But I think of them as very moral.
I remember when John Cameron Swayze over the television told me personally that the Russians now had the atomic bomb; then I knew that we were goners.
I've gotten letters, but mostly from Bible-belt types who say, you must be Satan! They come right out and call me Satan and hope that I'm damned to hell.
If I go to a movie and it's particularly violent, and people are leaving the theatre ready to vomit, we're sitting there with our popcorn just chuckling.
What the Internet's value is that you have access to information but you also have access to every lunatic that's out there that wants to throw up a blog.
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.
My stuff is my stuff. I do it for my own reasons, using my own peculiar set of guidelines. I'm not a student of the genre. I don't care what anybody else does.
I've never been able to reuse characters, I've often wanted to. I've never been able to get people to cooperate. I can't get anyone together on any kind of deal.
The very fact that you thought of it means that, somewhere in your mind, it's believable to you. All you have to do is convince your audience that it's possible.
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.
Nursery rhymes were political when they were first written! To me, that's what it's about: it's about using it to say something more than just what the story is.
You just wish you could lobotomize yourself and just do a thing that's really on instinct. There's always a certain self-consciousness. And you worry about that.
I vote in the Academy, so I get all the screeners. I'm so often disappointed by all the material and especially by what wins. I find myself never voting for the winner.