When I was old enough to go to movies alone, I got to see 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' on the big screen. I just fell in love with them.

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

We know that energy can not be created nor destroyed but can be changed in it's form. If it can not be formed then it can not exist. We may not exist.

Build your own dream or someone will hire you to build theirs.

Don't regret

My meal arrived. It was a bowl of tepid, green curried water with two spinach leaves floating in it. The waiter called it 'vegetable soup'. I called it inedible slop.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

There are so many successful women working in intelligence, but it's still seen as a male-dominated world.

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

Like birds whose wings are broken, you live without direction!

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.