"I'm like my zombies. I won't stay dead!"
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"My zombies will never take over the world because I need the humans. The humans are the ones I dislike the most, and they're where the trouble really lies."
"I'll never get sick of zombies. I just get sick of producers."
"When the first movie to show the anger people have about the war is a grade Z zombie movie, that tells you all you need to know about how afraid of ruffling anyone's feathers people in the movie business are today."
"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."
"One mind awake can become stronger than a thousand zombies sleepwalking in a dying civilization."
"I say if you're going to go for the Angel bullshit you might as well go for the Zombie package as well."
"I think that period dramas just need zombies."
"Even if there's a zombie apocalypse, you'll still be able to travel using the Tesla Supercharging system."
"I think zombies would fit in anywhere. You can tell any story, and put zombies in it. I don't know how I'd find the backing, but I think it'd be great to make a zombie gangster movie."
"I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books."
"The fact that you've got zombies in this movie allows you to make slightly bolder choices tonally."
"The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive — a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good, say the mystics of muscle, is Society — a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form, a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself.... The purpose of man's life, say both, is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question."
"I don't want a zombie society. I don't want to go that far."
"The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question."
"I don't think we have enough imaginary creatures in cinema. It seems like we're stuck with zombies, vampires, and werewolves. We should have everything. We should have minotaurs. We should have elves. We should have mermen in popular culture. But instead we've stuck with vampires."
"Zombies are the real lower-class citizens of the monster world and that's why l like them."
"The way superheroes dominate the fictional landscape now, along with dystopian futures and zombies. Yeah, definitely - I think these stories function as a kind of mythology for us."
"When the dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took on flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the night thoughts became zombies."
"I tried to speak in a cool, calm way, but the zombie rose up in my throat and choked me off."
"Can you have a seance to summon the ghost of a dead zombie?"