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

I sympathize with the zombies and am not even sure they are villains. To me they are this earth-changing thing. God or the devil changed the rules, and dead people are not staying dead.

I can't really make fun of zombies. They're not liars. They're not cheats.

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

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

To me, the zombies have always just been zombies. They've always been a cigar. When I first made 'Night of the Living Dead,' it got analyzed and overanalyzed way out of proportion. The zombies were written about as if they represented Nixon's Silent Majority or whatever. But I never thought about it that way.