Top 100 Romero's Quotes
#1. Romero's stepfather knew something was up when an officer working on a classified Russian dogfight simulation asked him if his stepson was interested in a part-time job.
David Kushner
#2. We like to imagine that Shaun is in George Romero's universe, that it's happening at the same time as the Pittsburgh outbreak.
Edgar Wright
#3. With the Romero zombie, you usually did not have a reason for the infection, the plague, the virus, whatever it's called.
Stephen Graham Jones
#4. One must not love oneself so much, as to avoid getting involved in the risks of life that history demands of us, and those that fend off danger will lose their lives.
Oscar Romero
#5. 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.
George A. Romero
#6. First of all, in the old days, if you wanted to show someone getting shot on film, all you could do was place an effect in the original take. And if you wanted to brighten somebody's face and leave the rest of the room dark, that was a very expensive process.
George A. Romero
#7. I don't like the new trends in horror. All this torture stuff seems really mean-spirited. People have forgotten how to laugh, and I don't see anybody who's using it as allegory.
George A. Romero
#8. Lula was really the face of Brazil's boom in the previous decade and is one of the most towering politicians in the country today, so for this investigation to find get to him is an enormous deal.
Simon Romero
#9. I think for most new kids it's important to sound different from the rest, to have your own sound, to be able to produce something that's not there yet ... If you want to be unique and you want to be a big DJ, create your own style, create your own signature.
Nicky Romero
#10. Now I don't know half of the young people in the industry. It's too spread out, too diffuse.
Cesar Romero
#11. Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.
Cesar Romero
#12. 'Feed' is about zombies and politics and blogging. It's about how George Romero actually saved the world! It's 'Night Of The Living Dead' meets 'The West Wing.'
Seanan McGuire
#13. 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.
George A. Romero
#14. It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.
Cesar Romero
#15. 'The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me.
George A. Romero
#16. Social sin is the crystallization ... of individuals' sins into permanent structures that keeps sin in being and makes its force to be felt by the majority of people.
Oscar Romero
#17. I expect a zombie to show up on 'Sesame Street' soon, teaching kids to count.
George A. Romero
#18. That is the hope that inspires Christians. We know that every effort to better society, especially when injustice and sin are so ingrained, is an effort that God blesses, that God wants, that God demands of us.
Oscar Romero
#19. We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.
Oscar Romero
#20. But unlike the person with exquisite taste in painting or perfume, the movie nerd is classless as well. Grasping the genius of Russ Meyer or George Romero or Herschell Gordon Lewis carries no cultural cachet and gets no one laid, believe me.
David Gordon
#21. There are too many games being developed by people that have no business creating games.
John Romero
#22. If I could make one wish, I wouldn't ask for world peace. I'd wish for a real zombie apocalypse. I'll take Romero zombies any day over this counterfeit harmony bullshit.
J. Cornell Michel
#23. Thank you, readers, for your interest in and support of my work. Enjoy the journey...
S.J. Romero
#24. If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no.
Cesar Romero
#25. 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.
George A. Romero
#26. It's disingenuous and wrong to say that the attorney general's expanded powers in the Patriot Act come with adequate oversight by the courts, ... In reality, the most troubling provisions in the law make judges little more than rubber stamps in Justice Department investigations.
Anthony Romero
#27. 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.
George A. Romero
#28. When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth.
George A. Romero
#29. I may be a dummy, but I'll never give up.
S.J. Romero
#30. You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.
John Romero
#31. I love when violent, dangerous art is done by people who are not violent and dangerous. I love that when George Romero was making 'Dawn of the Dead,' he was coaching his son's little league team.
Penn Jillette
#32. A Christian's authenticity is show in difficult hours it is in difficult hours that the church grows in authenticity. Blest be God for this difficult hour in our archdiocese. Let us be worthy of it.
Oscar Romero
#33. I don't think we should have sex in games. But I think we should have the right to have it. We should have the full range of human experience. It's an art form like any other art form. For me, that's the importance of preserving it.
Brenda Romero
#34. All right," he said. "My name is Oswaldo Alexander Romero, I was born right here in Virginia, and I like romantic comedies, books about sparkling vampires, and long walks on the beach.
Jon S. Lewis
#35. You can fall on your face easily if you go off in a certain direction. The Birds is a good example, some people are really phobic about birds flying over their heads, and some don't care. So, it's a personal thing.
George A. Romero
#36. I just adored 'Shaun Of The Dead.' That's a true mashup. That's a real Romero-era zombie movie and a real Gen X indie comedy. That was before zombie movies were cool, before 'Zombieland' and 'I Am Legend,' and now it has become a whole sub-genre.
Jon Favreau
#37. Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money.
Cesar Romero
#38. Zombies are the real lower-class citizens of the monster world and that's why l like them.
George A. Romero
#39. It would be very hard to write a serious drama and say some of these things. You can be much more abstract and allusive with horror, and it's very forgiving to the author. You don't necessarily have to take an absolutely positive position. You can just write whatever.
George A. Romero
#40. I'm satisfied to go in at the bottom - that's the best way to learn what things are all about.
Cesar Romero
#41. 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
#42. 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.
George A. Romero
#43. I think I'm going through a bit of ADD. I'm reading 3 books simultaneously and it's something that I don't recommend. It's like watching TV with two others who keep changing the channels...
S.J. Romero
#44. If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.
George A. Romero
#45. As a filmmaker, I love the medium. I have a great affection for it and I've been lucky enough to do all different kinds of films. The greatest part of the success I've had comes from horror. I love the idea of mixing humor and horror and to me, it's all a giggle.
George A. Romero
#46. I really don't mean to offend anybody, but it's getting more and more difficult to figure out what qualifies as offensive.
S.J. Romero
#47. 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
#48. We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord's grace to enter and do the rest.
Oscar Romero
#49. 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.
George A. Romero
#50. It's the maritime equivalent of rock climbing.
Cesar Romero
#51. There is no dichotomy between man and God's image. Whoever tortures a human being, whoever abuses a human being, whoever outrages a human being, abuses God's image.
Oscar Romero
#52. The analogy I use is that 'World of Warcraft' is like going to the mall: you see a ton of people there, but you don't really want to interact with them; you just want to know you're part of the human race. And if you get in trouble, you'll know someone else is there.
John Romero
#53. George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.
Cesar Romero
#54. 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
#56. Liberation that raises a cry against others is no true liberation. Liberation that means revolutions of hate and violence and takes away lives of others or abases the dignity of others
cannot be true liberty.
Oscar Romero
#57. But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, there was more more products and technology. But for me the nightlife was winding down, the glamour, the fun.
Cesar Romero
#58. I can't really make fun of zombies. They're not liars. They're not cheats.
George A. Romero
#59. The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it.
Cesar Romero
#60. I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.
George A. Romero
#61. That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone 'mainstream.'
Cesar Romero
#62. A church that does not provoke any crisis, preach a gospel that does not unsettle, proclaim a word of God
that does not get under anyone's skin or a word of God that does not touch the real sin of the society in which
it is being proclaimed: what kind of gospel is that?
Oscar A. Romero
#63. Army, Marriage, the Church, and Baking: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse.
Fermin Romero de Torres - The Shadow of the Wind.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#64. 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.
George A. Romero
#65. I think the reason that I like so many different games is because I like the way my brain works when I'm playing games. It's more fun.
John Romero
#66. I had to keep from laughing when a male relative of mine became concerned about how often I danced.
Cesar Romero
#67. 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
#68. When we leave Mass, we ought to go out the way Moses descended Mt Sinai: with his face shining, with his heart brave and strong to face the world's difficulties.
Oscar Romero
#69. I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.
George A. Romero
#70. 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
#71. I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me I will rise again in the people of El Salvador.
Oscar Romero
#72. 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.
George A. Romero
#73. I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money.
George A. Romero
#74. The guitar is a meditative tool to touch God and find love within yourself.
Pepe Romero
#75. I've gone on record to say that I'm proud of the PC version of Daikatana and I stand behind that.
John Romero
#76. You should only play pieces that you're willing to marry.
Pepe Romero
#77. Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse.
Cesar Romero
#78. There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.
John Romero
#79. I feel very lucky to be successful in what i love doing everyday.
Romero Britto
#80. They would glue the wig to the front of my forehead, and after a while it would give me a headache.
Cesar Romero
#81. I don't want to be an anti, against anybody. I simply want to be the builder of a great affirmation: the affirmation of God,who loves us and who wants to save us.
Oscar A. Romero
#83. I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed.
George A. Romero
#84. Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton ... remember, there is the face of Christ.
Oscar Romero
#85. We must not seek the child Jesus in the pretty figures of our Christmas cribs. We must seek him among the undernourished children who have gone to bed at night with nothing to eat, among the poor newsboys who will sleep covered with newspapers in doorways.
Oscar Romero
#86. The bulls are my best friends."
I translated to Brett.
"You kill your friends?" she asked.
"Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me.
Ernest Hemingway,
#88. There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.
Pepe Romero
#89. I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.
Cesar Romero
#90. You're headed in the right direction when you realize the customer viewpoint is more important than the company viewpoint. It's more productive to learn from your customers instead of about them.
John Romero
#91. I believe that every human being should try to do good for someone else. There are so many different ways to do it. My art can be an instrument for helping people ... What a good feeling - that I can do that with my art ...
Romero Britto
#92. When someone's acting for a scene, they can fool the camera. But in everyday life, unless you're watching and censoring yourself every minute, or spending all your time in the company of ladies, what you feel is bound to show in your eyes.
Cesar Romero
#93. Everybody knows the rules, even though some break those rules.
George A. Romero
#94. There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried
Oscar A. Romero
#95. 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.
George A. Romero
#96. When you've seen prejudice, you understand that we aren't finished, that we're still perfecting this American experiment.
Anthony Romero
#97. 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.
George A. Romero
#98. If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!
Cesar Romero
#99. stuck in a backwoods George Romero movie with the cast from Hee Haw.
D. Nathan Hilliard
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