Max Brooks
Max Brooks
Maximillian Michael Brooksis an American horror author and screenwriter. He is the son of comedy filmmaker Mel Brooks and actress Anne Bancroft. Brooks's writing focuses on zombie stories. Brooks is also a television and voice-over actor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth22 May 1972
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
thinking worry people
I think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of their world, they need a safe vessel for all their fears. Zombies provide that vessel because they're 'safe.
kids america storm
I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.
country thinking blow
I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from.
teacher want remember
I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.
thinking bored soul
I'm not a horror fan. I'm an anti-horror fan. I think horror fans feel deep down in the pit of their souls, they feel safe, and therefore bored. And therefore they want to be scared.
vacuums secrecy paranoid
Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.
body likes looking-for-love
Looking for love on the internet is like Janet Leigh asking Norman Bates if he likes her body.
sleep night government
Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep at night.
war epic stories
If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a giant, epic, global story, because that requires a giant, epic, global budget.
jobs book night
I actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live.
mind records written
I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in.
thinking iraq people
Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down.
dark thinking knights
When I read Frank Miller's 'The Dark Knight Returns', I think it's a wonderful record of the Reagan era. I think it's amazing. This is the time I lived in.
zombie walks
The dead walk among us.