Max Brooks Quotes

My understanding of zombie movies is people rising from the dead, from their graves, stuff like that, and walking very slowly.

I have a soft spot in my heart for the zombies.

Zombies, believe me, are more terrifying than colonists.

Zombies are the new vampire.

Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. Movies taught me that. For every one Jesus you get a million zombies.

I happen to like vampires more than zombies.

I'm a big fan of zombies, and I have a zombie tattoo on my leg.

Because we've never encountered a decomposing body, we can only assume they are out to get us. It is no wonder there is a cultural fascination with zombies.

I think dead humans rising from their graves with little to no sense of who they were in their past lives to mindlessly roam the earth consigning others to the same fate would be a bit depressing.

Zombies to me don't represent anything in particular. They are a global disaster that people don't know how to deal with.

Zombies cannot run.

The dead walk among us. Zombies, ghouls-no matter what their label-these somnambulists are the greatest threat to humanity, other than humanity itself.

Why not rise from the grave and terrorize a little instead of staying buried and dead in the cemetery?

Zombies are the blue-collar monsters

If 180 million people want to be undead, that’s their funeral, but I happen to like being alive.

Three points for the dead slowly prising open the lids of their coffins. They want to hunt the living. They can't stop. Their throats have turned to liquid and their fingers glint under the weak autumn sun.

But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.

When the dead body said, "Good evening," Annabel had to face the grim conclusion that it wasn't as dead as she'd hoped.

Zombies are the new vampires.

I expect a zombie to show up on 'Sesame Street' soon, teaching kids to count.

A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation.

I'm thrilled to continue the tradition of the spectacular, cinematic, horrifying, exciting and emotional storytelling of 'The Walking Dead.' I'm a huge fan of the comics, and started with the show on the other side of the set, as an avid viewer.

There is no story that can't be improved by adding zombies.

I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.

What is it about a zombie that appeals to me? I don't know. Maybe that it's just the most possible - I don't know - of all the supernatural entities.