I thought Godzilla was a mess, the monster had no character and the humans didn’t either. They forgot to make the movie that went along with all these wonderful effects. – George A. Romero
Really interesting genre films, especially monster movies, evoke the fears of the times intentionally. Our starting point was ‘Godzilla’ – the original movie was released less than 10 years after Hiroshima, and it’s a classic in Japan. – Matt Reeves
My most important task must be an attempt to bring the monster under democratic direction and control. – Elliot Richardson
I first read ‘The Lord of the Rings’ as an adolescent. It’s a dense novel, a sprawling, complex monster of a book populated with a prolific number of characters caught up in a narrative structure that, frankly, does not lend itself to conventional storytelling. – Peter Jackson
I’m still pulled over… We were nominated for two Oscars for ‘Monster’s Ball,’ and I almost didn’t make the Oscars because I got pulled over in Beverly Hills. – Lee Daniels
I grew up loving monsters. I’m just a total monster geek. When I was a kid, I had the Aurora monster models, and I would make them. I loved the Universal horror movies and the Hammer movies. I just had an affinity for them. – John Logan
There isn’t one album that says ‘Hall & Oates.’ It’s always ‘Daryl Hall and John Oates.’ From the very beginning. People never note that. The idea of ‘Hall & Oates,’ this two-headed monster, this thing, is not anything we’ve ever wanted or liked. – John Oates
If you battle monsters, you don’t always become a monster. But you aren’t entirely human anymore, either. – Jonathan Maberry
Do we root for Michael Corleone in the ‘Godfather’ films? I think so, even if he is a monster. – Jacques Audiard
That one was stunt heavy. ‘Monster Trucks’ was a lot of stunts. I got to do some insane stunts they should’ve never let me do. – Lucas Till
When I see my kids totally into their Legos, it brings me back to the days I was hanging out and playing with my monster models. It brings me there in a second. – Kirk Hammett
As a kid, I wanted to be the person running from the monster. I also wanted to be the person saving people from the monster. I wanted to be a superhero. – Ray Santiago
When I was a little girl, I used to watch a lot of monster movies, like ‘Godzilla.’ All those monster movies. – Rinko Kikuchi
We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can’t disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. – Richard Dawkins
David Cronenberg’s ‘Maps to the Stars’ is a Hollywood monster movie in which Hollywood is the monster. – Steve Erickson