Julie Plec Quotes

One of my favorite books [The Stand] of all time. I grew up reading it.

I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.

In entertainment, zombies are so played out. I have a gut sense that people are getting tired of apocalyptic scenarios.

I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.

I love 'The Stand;' I read it when I was a kid - it was one of my favorite books when I was growing up. I love Stephen King; I think he's a remarkable writer.

Turning a zombie pandemic into a generic disaster movie robs the zombies of their dirty, nasty edginess and robs the disaster of its epic scope.

'The Hunger Games' has something for everyone.

I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.

My first six books were horror, I think because when I was young I loved Stephen King. John Wyndham, Daphne Du Maurier, and it's natural to try and emulate the books you first loved.

I loved Zack Snyder's 'Dawn of the Dead' and '28 Days Later' and '28 Weeks Later.' I would love to be involved with a film that shows the breakdown of society and a small group of survivors in a world that has crumbled. That's something I would like to explore.

The apocalypse is coming, that's the one thing I like about George Bush, I really think he can get us into the ... apocalypse, like the BIBLICAL ... I really think he believes that he'll be the guy in the white hat. I think he's read the Stephen King novel The Stand a couple times, and he really thinks there's a dark man in the desert somewhere and he's gonna fight him or something.

How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series.

I know that by the time I was in middle school, Andre Norton was definitely my favorite author.

The largest two books I've ever read more than once are 'Bleak House' by Charles Dickens and 'The Stand' by Stephen King, about 1,200 pages each.

Opinions on bomb shelters are personal. As for myself, I do not think I would care to be alive when all of the birds, animals, trees, houses and buildings were gone in those places where I had lived.

The zombie is the new, sort of, archetype of our times.

I'm into zombie movies like 'World War Z' and the shows 'Breaking Bad' and 'The Walking Dead.'

I like zombie movies. I like 'The Walking Dead;' I like the metaphor of it, simply because when we go with the zombie concept - if you're bitten by a zombie, you don't transform into something else like a vampire or a werewolf or whatever. You become something that's not you.

What attracted me to 'The Maze Runner' is its pure action.

I love 'The Walking Dead.'

I grew up actually reading 'The Hobbit,' not 'The Lord of the Rings.' I loved 'The Hobbit' growing up.

I actually watch 'The Walking Dead.' I like 'The Walking Dead' a lot.

No one's up in arms about these PG-13 movies where it's literally about the end of the world.