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 Yeah, I`m seen by the studios as a genre guy. I`ve made several non-genre films, but nobody went to see them. I guess I`ll never be a member of that club. Just because I`m showing somebody being disemboweled doesn`t mean I have to get heavy and put a message round it.
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I`ll never get sick of zombies. I just get sick of producers.
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My zombie films have been so far apart that I`ve been able to reflect the socio-political climates of the different decades. I have this conceit that they`re a little bit of a chronicle, a cinematic diary of what`s going on.
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I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.
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I guess in my pictures you`re either doomed or you`ve got yourself a hell of a job.
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I`m like my zombies. I won`t stay dead!
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If one horror film hits, everyone says, "Let`s go make a horror film!" It`s the genre that never dies.
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[On his fourth installment of the "Living Dead" series, Land of the Dead (2005)]: 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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I`ll never live long enough to arrive at some sort of peaceful co-existence of some kind. That`s probably the only way you could end it on a note of promise, which would mean the zombies would learn how to eat Spam or chicken livers, instead of your liver. But I`ll never get to that point.
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If you have 60 people dress like zombies and you show them something that you like, you get 60 people doing the exact same thing. 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.
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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.
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I don`t try to answer any questions or preach. My personality and my opinions come through in the satire of the films, but I think of them as a snapshot of the time. I have this device, or conceit, where something happens in the world and I can say, `Ooo, I`ll talk about that, and I can throw zombies in it! And get it made!` You know, it`s kind of my ticket to ride.
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If I fail, they [the film industry] write me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.
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Trivia
Dawn of the Dead (2004), the remake of his movie Dawn of the Dead (1978), was released before the fourth part of his Zombie-series, Land of the Dead (2005), was even filmed.
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When discussing his influences, he has that the Universal horror classic made a strong impression on him and his favorite horror film as a child was The Thing from Another World (1951). However, the film he said made him want to be a director was The Red Shoes (1948). While discussing the directors who made a strong impression on him, he said that Orson Welles and Howard Hawks were his favorites, surpassing Alfred Hitchcock.
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Frequently casts African-Americans as the heroes of his films, although the parts aren't usually written specifically for any particular race, going against the stereotype of the Black character dying early in horror films.
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Is good friends with stuntman/special-effects artist/actor/director Tom Savini. The two have worked together on many films.
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Education: Carnegie-Mellon Institute (art, theatre, design).
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Was originally slated to write and direct Resident Evil (2002).
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Was slated to direct a theatrical version of Stephen King's novel "The Stand," adapted for the screen by Rospo Pallenberg. The film never materialised. Instead, the novel was adapted into a TV mini-series, "The Stand" (1994) (mini).
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Was originally set to direct two Stephen King stories that would later turn into TV features: Salem's Lot (1979) (TV) & "The Stand" (1994) (mini).
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Prior to Night of the Living Dead (1968), he was better known as an industrial film-maker, who created TV commercials, promotional featurettes and industrial training films. One of his assignments was to shoot short films that were used in the TV show "MisteRogers' Neighborhood".
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Of Cuban and Lithuanian descent.
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Originally set to direct Pet Sematary (1989), but when filming was delayed, he dropped out and Tom Savini was given the opportunity to direct the film but passed. Finally, Mary Lambert stepped in.
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In 1968, he reinvented the horror genre with his Night of the Living Dead (1968), a cult classic that made its way onto the prestigious National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
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He has two children, a son and a daughter (who will be attending Tisch, NYU in the Fall 2006 to study film-making).
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He resides in Toronto, Canada.
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Was originally attached to write and direct Resident Evil (2002), but left the project in 1999 due to creative differences over the script.
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The 2002 Sight & Sound Greatest Films Poll (2002) listed his Top Ten films as The Brothers Karamazov (1958), Casablanca (1942), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), High Noon (1952), King Solomon's Mines (1950), North by Northwest (1959), The Quiet Man (1952), Repulsion (1965), Touch of Evil (1958), and The Tales of Hoffmann (1951).
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Father of Tina Romero.
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Began making movies at the age of 14 with an 8mm camera.
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