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I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that you have to go find them. You have to make a conscious choice to go to the swamp or the desert or the abandoned summer camp.

I think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of their world, they need a safe vessel for all their fears. Zombies provide that vessel because they're 'safe.'

Zombies are apocalyptic. I think that's why people love them because we're living in, not apocalyptic times, but I think we're living in fear of the apocalyptic times.

My zombies will never take over the world because I need the humans. The humans are the ones I dislike the most, and they're where the trouble really lies.

I'm basically a fearful person. I'm a phobic person.

I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.

I like my zombies slow and I like my zombies stupid.

I'm deathly afraid of rats.