Ashley Thomas Quotes

I would eat fruitcake if there'd been a nuclear war and I'd run out of canned goods.

I think architectural appreciation would be a minor occupation after a nuclear war. People would just be happy to have something to eat.

I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.

Things were so bad we ate rabbits that neighbours had run over and gave to us because they knew we were broke.

I've thought a lot about how if something horrible happened, and if it were like 'The Road' situation, I've decided I don't want to survive past the death of society as we know it.

There is a universal fascination with the living dead. There is more to a zombie story that a bunch of corpses attacking the living. The real power of such a story lies with the undercurrent of hopelessness compounded by a very real instinct to survive.

In the fast zombie stories, it's not our humanity that is at stake anymore. It's our survival.

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

'The Hunger Games' takes place in Panem, a country which is part of America. It's post-apocalyptic. There's been a global war. The Panem country is what remains of this hugely destructive war.

Some people were breaking in to get food for their families. They were in survivor mode. Don’t confuse that with a guy carting off a 64 inch television set and looting…. The test is take the mirror and put it in front of your face and ask what would you do.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

We lived near a supermarket, and whatever they threw away, we would get it, and my mother would make soup. Or she would get a big can of lard, a big can of meal, a big can of flour, a big can of beans, and fix the same meal for months.

In the event of a Mad Max-style post-apocalyptic dystopia, people with supplies of food and water could become warlords or chieftains in the social order that emerges out of the rubble.

Always have to think like a guy with no food in his refrigerator.

Hunger never saw bad bread.

Hunger can change everything you ever thought you knew about yourself.

If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

Hunger can bring out the worst in us.

I fought from the time I was eight years old, sometimes three, four fights a night. We did it to eat, and we did it because we were just tough kids.

With 'Daud,' basically, I wanted to make a very 'Mad Max' kind of a film: that was my original intention.

If you fight a hungry fighter and you look into their eyes and you're not as hungry as they are, that's when you get eaten up.

You eat anything when you need energy to survive and there's nothing in your body, when you are becoming just bones and tissues and muscles and I don't wish those circumstances on anybody.

In a heartbeat, a thousand voices took up the chant. King Joffrey and King Robb and King Stannis were forgotten, and King Bread ruled alone. "Bread." they clamored. "Bread, Bread!

If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart.

Hot Potato is a very different game when the people playing are starving.