Jeff Baena Quotes

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.

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

As movie monsters go, zombies are the most human. They were human at one time. So we are confronted with ourselves in a way, which is much more frightening and disturbing.

Zombies cannot run.

It's a liminal thing, humming, And I'm always interested in liminal things.

Zombie purists don't even call our zombies zombies, because to be a zombie you have to be undead. That's something zombie purists can fight about for years and years to come.

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

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

The dead walk among us.

I want to be the condensation on the glass. I want to be that phenomenon that takes place between hot and cold.

He's no more human than I am, ma petite." At least I'm not dead." That can be remedied.

I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.

Zombies are the blue-collar monsters

I think zombies would fit in anywhere. You can tell any story, and put zombies in it. I don't know how I'd find the backing, but I think it'd be great to make a zombie gangster movie.

The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend.

Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.

I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.

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

Today's youth have been cast in a condition of liminal drift, with no way of knowing whether it is transitory or permanent.

A Corpse or a Ghost- I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.

Perhaps that's what I feel, an outside and an inside and me in the middle, perhaps that's what I am, the thing that divides the world in two, on the one side the outside, on the other the inside, that can be as thin as foil, I'm neither one side nor the other, I'm in the middle, I'm the partition, I've two surfaces and no thickness, perhaps that's what I feel, myself vibrating, I'm the tympanum, on the one hand the mind, on the other the world, I don't belong to either.

Some say he died. Codswallop, in my opinion. Dunno if he had enough human left in him to die. Some say he’s still out there, bidin’ his time, like, but I don’ believe it.

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

where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.

I really feed off of The Walking Dead.