Biographie

Often features radio or television news broadcasts playing in the background.

Zombie films with an underlying social commentary

Films often contain extreme carnage with make-up effects by Tom Savini

Strong minority and female characters

Towering height and slender frame

Frequently cast African-Americans as the heroes of his films, although the roles weren't usually written specifically for any particular race, going against the stereotype of the black character dying early in horror films.

He passed away "peacefully in his sleep" while "listening to the score of L'homme tranquille (1952)", one of his all-time favorite films.

Began making movies at the age of 14 with an 8mm camera.

Was originally set to direct two Stephen King stories that would later turn into television features: Salem's Lot (1979) and Le fléau (1994).

At age 19, he worked briefly as a page-boy on the set of La mort aux trousses (1959). He later said he was unimpressed by Alfred Hitchcock's directing style while there, saying that it seemed mechanical and passionless. Coincidentally, Romero and La mort aux trousses (1959) co-star Martin Landau died one day apart.

If I fail, they [the film industry] write me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.

[on his fourth installment of the "Living Dead" series, La terre des morts (2005)] The idea of living with terrorism--I've tried to make it more applicable to the concerns Americans are going through now.

If one horror film hits, everyone says, "Let's go make a horror film!" It's the genre that never dies.

If you have 60 people dress like zombies and you show them something that you like, you get 60 people doing the exact same thing. My opinion of a good zombie walk is to loll your head as if it's a little too heavy and the muscles have begun to atrophy.

I'm like my zombies. I won't stay dead!