George A. Romero Quotes

Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to the world.

I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.

At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.

I know the movies that I've liked, and I know the experience that they've given me, so the goal is always to try to create a movie that I would like myself and that would knock me out, challenge me or intrigue me in some way. That's been my criteria for figuring out what I want to do, or also when I'm writing something or creating a scene.

I want to create films that will speak to different parts of our hearts and brains, stories told from a different angle.

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.

I think the audience know which films are aimed at their pocket, and which films are aimed at their soul. There are a lot of films out there made by people who are genuinely trying to make a change.

Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that director's vision.

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

The most important thing when you do a movie is that you find an audience that really understands what you want to do and is really supportive of it.

I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people.

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.

I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.

Cinema is not about format, and it's not about venue. Cinema is an approach. Cinema is a state of mind on the part of the filmmaker. I've seen commercials that have cinema in them, and I've seen Oscar-winning movies that don't. I'm fine with this.

I don't want to do a history lesson. I don't think cinema should be about that. Cinema should be about emotions.

It's a great privilege to make a film, to have it shown, and for people to see it.

Although we're all in this to make a living, why not make something to make an impact? One day, I'll make a horror film. I think I know what the audience wants.

The essential nature of all filmed entertainment is that you area always straddling the line of whether or not you can realize something that you want to do.

This politics is bound to be reflected in the work of a serious filmmaker. When I make a film, I try to tell a human story to the best of my ability. I do not set out either to preach messages or purely to entertain.

No director can ever deliver what's on his or her mind totally, but 'Baahubali-2' is the closest I can get in executing what I had envisaged onto the celluloid.