George A. Romero

George Romero: If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.

George Romero: on Night of the Living Dead becoming public domain Our title was Night of the Flesh Eaters. We were just a bunch of young guys who made the movie and stuck it in the trunk of our car and drove it to New York to see if anybody wanted to show it. And we put the copyright right on the title card, so when the distributor changed the title to Night of the Living Dead they just never thought about it. So when the copyright thing came off, it became a public film.

George Romero: on zombies in general It's an easily identifiable monster. You say "vampire" you know what to expect. You say "zombie" you know what to expect. You don't have to have a scientist in the story explaining, "Well, here's what's happening..." I think it's just become idiomatic.