When I was old enough to go to movies alone, I got to see 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' on the big screen. I just fell in love with them.

I've always felt that the real horror is next door to us, that the scariest monsters are our neighbors.

I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.

Movies are about escape.

I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.

I can't really make fun of zombies. They're not liars. They're not cheats.

I go to conventions and universities and talk to young filmmakers and everybody's making a zombie movie! It's because it's easy to get the neighbors to come out, put some ketchup on them.