“For me, tribalism and religion are basically the big reasons we're in trouble. Patriotism, tribalism, and religion.”

“For me, tribalism and religion are basically the big reasons we're in trouble. Patriotism, tribalism, and religion.”

“As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.”

“'The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me. But the one that made me want to make movies was 'The Tales of Hoffman.' That's my favorite film of all time. It's a fantasy film. It's an opera. I never get tired of it.”

“I sit around listening to classical music. I don't play video games. I love to go to dinner, go on picnics, travel.”

“I really liked the helicopter pilot in 'Dawn of the Dead', when he gets bitten and comes out of the elevator. That guy was amazing. He did this incredible walk that we didn't even know about until we started shooting.”

“For me, tribalism and religion are basically the big reasons we're in trouble. Patriotism, tribalism, and religion.”

“When we made 'Night of the Living Dead,' we got riddled. There was this famous article Roger Ebert wrote just blasting the film because he had gone to see it at some screening where there were all these kids in the audience. I don't know why that happened. We didn't make the movie for kids.”

“I grew up on EC comic books and 'Tales From the Crypt,' which were all loaded with humor, bad jokes, and puns. I can have that kind of fun and make these comic book movies but, at the same time, talk about things I want to talk about - whether it's consumerism or the Bush administration or war.”