I keep a little notebook of things that I can do to the zombies that might be silly and fun.
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.
Collaborate, don’t dictate. Every department head has something to offer. Listen and gratefully accept their offerings. They’re moviemakers, too.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Zombies are the real lower-class citizens of the monster world and that’s why l like them.
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.
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.
Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.
The most realistic blood I’ve seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.
I think you’re only free if you’re working on very low or huge money.
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.
If one horror film hits, everyone says, ‘Let’s go make a horror film.’ It’s the genre that never dies.
People called ‘28 Days’ and ‘28 Weeks’ zombie movies, and they’re not! It’s some sort of virus; they’re not dead.
I expect a zombie to show up on ‘Sesame Street’ soon, teaching kids to count.
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.
Nothings ever real until its real.
I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed.
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.