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George A. Romero

"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."

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Donna Grant

"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."

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Donna Grant

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

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Donna Grant

"Looper is another great film."

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Donna Grant

"As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean."

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Donna Grant

"This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased."

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Donna Grant

"Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in."

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Donna Grant

"I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way."

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Donna Grant

"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release."

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Donna Grant

"You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again."

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Donna Grant

"I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn."

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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 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie."

Wisdom

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George A. Romero
"The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront."

Blood

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George A. Romero
"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."

Film

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George A. Romero
"The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director."

Movies

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George A. Romero
"There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it with, and somehow forget the movie. You can't forgive the movie for a long time. It takes a few years to look at it with any objectivity and forgive its flaws."

Time

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

Creativity

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George A. Romero
"I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money."

Money

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George A. Romero
"I thought Godzilla was a mess, the monster had no character and the humans didn't either. They forgot to make the movie that went along with all these wonderful effects."

Thought

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George A. Romero
"If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies."

Film

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George A. Romero
"I really believe that you could do horror very inexpensively. I don't think it has anything to do with the effects, the effects are not the most important parts."

Horror

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