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.

I'm like my zombies. I won't stay dead!

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.

I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.

When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth.

I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.

I've always felt that the real horror is next door to us, that the scariest monsters are our neighbors.

A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.

My stuff is my stuff. I do it for my own reasons, using my own peculiar set of guidelines. I'm not a student of the genre. I don't care what anybody else does.

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.

Zombies are the blue-collar monsters

Being willing to listen to others and let them speak into our lives is a critical attitude leaders must have. It is not weakness to get good advice - it is strength to seek it out.

A false love, begins with the eye and soon spills from the eye in pain. Where a true love, begins with the eye, and settles in the heart.

Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.

You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!

My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.

I like action more than anything touchy-feely.

Truth-telling by a leader can legitimate truth-telling at every level.

Jihad expands Islam's domain by any means available.

Memory is the only friend of grief.

As one of my older friends says, "Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be." Let's take a stab at it, anyway.