If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.

Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show their feelings through their action or through dialog.

I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.

I think zombies have always been an easy metaphor for hard times. Because they're this big, faceless, brainless group of evil things that will work tirelessly to destroy you and think of nothing else.

Father may have been wanting in some things, but here he was masterful. Night upon night, I marveled at his power to hold listeners in rapt attention. He could tell a story with such detail, such flourish, that afterwards a man could swear it had been his own memory, and not a tale at all.

Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.

Elizabeth lifted her skirt, disregarding modesty, and delivered a swift kick to the creature's head.