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It's disingenuous and wrong to say that the attorney general's expanded powers in the Patriot Act come with adequate oversight by the courts, ... In reality, the most troubling provisions in the law make judges little more than rubber stamps in Justice Department investigations.


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GEORGE A. ROMERO As movie monsters go, zombies are the most human. They were human at one time. So we are confronted ...
GEORGE A. ROMERO When I was old enough to go to movies alone, I got to see 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula...
GEORGE A. ROMERO I was very into Arthurian myth. I had always read all the White stuff, devour the stuff.
GEORGE A. ROMERO So many execs don't get or understand the horror genre, they're used to being involved with story or...
GEORGE A. ROMERO I grew up on the old EC comic books before the Comics Code in North American and with all sort of go...
GEORGE A. ROMERO My opinion of a good zombie walk is to loll your head as if it's a little too heavy and the muscles ...
GEORGE A. ROMERO Horror will always be there, it always comes back, it's a familiar genre that some people, not e...
GEORGE A. ROMERO For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not th...
GEORGE A. ROMERO Back then, in 1968, everything was suspect - family, government, and obviously the family unit in &#...
GEORGE A. ROMERO I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed.
GEORGE A. ROMERO I thought Godzilla was a mess, the monster had no character and the humans didn't either. They f...
GEORGE A. ROMERO I really believe that you could do horror very inexpensively. I don't think it has anything to d...
GEORGE A. ROMERO As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 mi...
GEORGE A. ROMERO Pittsburgh, for a while, became a production centre. There was one $400 million year. Hollywood was ...
GEORGE A. ROMERO My zombie films were all sort of satirical, with political messages. So I was doing them inexpensive...
GEORGE A. ROMERO Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in mo...
GEORGE A. ROMERO I'd love to make a film like 'Pan's Labyrinth.'
GEORGE A. ROMERO RISE to the occasion or FALL among the many who refuse to try
MARIO ROMERO STEPHEN To be truly different, one must first think differently. Imagination inspires innovation.
MARIO ROMERO STEPHEN When you're working with a low budget, the most expensive time is the time spent on the set. The...
GEORGE A. ROMERO We must overturn so many idols, the idol of self first of all, so that we can be humble, and only fr...
OSCAR A. ROMERO The church must suffer for speaking the truth, for pointing out sin, for uprooting sin. No one wants...
OSCAR A. ROMERO It's gotta be scary, obviously, but I don't want to go crazy with it. I don't want to make another z...
GEORGE A. ROMERO Horror films are the anchovies of the cinema. Either you like them, or you don't.
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