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.

Movies are about escape.

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

Everybody knows the rules, even though some break those rules.

A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.

For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.

Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.