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

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.

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

I'll never get sick of zombies. I just get sick of producers.

The key to meditation is to exist one hundred percent in the here and now.

Refuse to be isolated. Your accomplishments are patronized by people who would get interest in them. When you don’t get connected, how will you get to know those people?

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

I don't want to hide. If I get arrested, I get arrested.

Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.

You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.

I tell people, 'I have a Ph.D. from Google University.

Women who have power are always feared.

Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.