Nicotero Quotes

#1. I like to work in films, but I'd love to work in the technical side of film. I'd love to work with, say, Greg Nicotero [The Walking Dead] in kind of, like, special makeup effects. I'd probably say, "Good with clay and latex." Although I don't know what kind of job that'd get me.

Simon Pegg

#2. I love the expression 'makes your skin crawl,' because when you have that sensation while you're watching something, it really does.

Gregory Nicotero

#3. I really had the right nose for making the right decisions, in terms of which projects to do and which projects to stay away from. The people that I ended up becoming very close to in my career are the guys who inspire me.

Gregory Nicotero

#4. As a movie fan, my number one goal is to continue to learn from what I've done and make special effects as precise and clean as they can be.

Gregory Nicotero

#5. When a movie succeeds, it takes me to another world where I don't think about it and I'm just immersed.

Gregory Nicotero

#6. It's funny, I worked with a lot of directors in the many years that I've been doing this, and generally when you hear a director yelling on set, everybody scatters in the other direction.

Gregory Nicotero

#7. The reality of the human condition is such that, according to Porter (and I agree), we must "salvage our fragments of happiness" out of life's inevitable sufferings.

Gary L. Thomas

#8. This planet is for everyone, borders are for no one. It's all about freedom.

Benjamin Zephaniah

#9. I grew up really loving horror movies and genre movies. I was a big fan of Universal Monsters movies, read Famous Monsters magazine. I built monster models and creature effects.

Gregory Nicotero

#10. Faithfulness." She thought of her second fiance, the bastard. "Life's too short to waste it on someone you can't trust. You should be able to depend on the man you love not to lie to you or cheat on you. If you have that as a base, you can work on the other stuff.

Linda Howard

#11. If the actor points a fake gun and pulls the trigger, and you have to fall to your knees, you really do have to sell it. Otherwise, it takes the viewer out of the moment.

Gregory Nicotero

#12. Every season I teach zombie school. The casting people in Georgia look for like 200 new recruits. They come in in groups of 20, and I audition them and grade them based on their look and their performance ability.

Gregory Nicotero

#13. Girls always told me..."Don't complicate things." I did my best. It was so hard to keep things simple.

Leos Carax

#14. A big hello from California!! And, when in doubt, self-publish, thank you !!!

Nancy Fornataro

#15. There is something really so iconic about the original Predator, and it is exciting. It's not just special effects. It's not like you bring a puppet in, these are characters and so we were involved in developing the look and the attitude of all the characters.

Gregory Nicotero

#16. At my house I have a full-size time machine that I've built over a couple of years. I love looking at people's faces when they walk into my office. They're literally astounded.

Gregory Nicotero

#17. Roger, we copy. It was beautiful from here, Tranquility. Over.

Charles Duke

#18. I always say that, if you have great actors and great storytelling and great monsters, and you mix them together, nine times out of 10, it explodes in your face.

Gregory Nicotero

#19. I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.

Barbra Streisand

#20. He had lived (without being aware of it) on those spiritual truths that he had sucked in with his mother's milk, but he had thought, not merely without recognition of these truths, but studiously ignoring them.

Leo Tolstoy