George Romero
George Romero
George Andrew Romerois an American-Canadian filmmaker and editor, best known for his series of gruesome and satirical horror films about a hypothetical zombie apocalypse, beginning with Night of the Living Dead...
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If you can keep it together, you can find a way. I've had a tremendous amount of luck, despite all the frustration... I've been able to stay at home, raise a family and live fairly comfortably, not wealthy by any means.
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In the horror genre, it's hard to find topics that'll really be scary for everyone... to get that suspension of disbelief.
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I didn't play practical jokes at home. I had a strict upbringing, which is part of my rebellion. I was raised Catholic and went to parochial school, which is why priests and nuns appear in my movies a lot, and I don't have very much nice to say about them.
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I like having to use ingenuity... When I'm pitching ideas, I say hey guys, the real scary stuff doesn't need the big bucks... things that go bump in the night... you can scare someone without spending a lot of money.
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The idea of living with terrorism - I've tried to make it more applicable to the concerns Americans are going through now.
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A good character is always slightly unexpected, or a character that makes a turn or where you can see the character arc and watch he/she develop... not obvious... obviously a good guy or bad guy.
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All of a sudden, Pittsburgh became one of the places where all the movies were being shot... a lot of them. So, now I can't escape Pittsburgh. I can't get out of this town!
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I don't like all the deferential humor, I think it detracts. Laugh with it, not at it.
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I hung out at a local film lab and learned how to use the tools. I grew up in B&W... all serious, meaningful things were in B&W! If you trace TV, the serious dramas were in B&W, and I think it's a holdover from those of us who were working then who think B&W was good.