World War Z Quotes

There’s a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

World War Z was a great zombie film because those were zombie performances. It wasn’t just a bunch of people walking around slow. They did close-ups on zombies who were performing, as a mindless dead thing. They were creepy and scary.

Most people don’t believe something can happen until it already has. That’s not stupidity or weakness, that’s just human nature.

[…]you don’t have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn’t about killing or even hurting the other guy, it’s about scaring him enough to call it a day.

If I thought there was any hope of turning ‘World War Z’ into a movie, I wouldn’t have written it as a giant, epic, global story, because that requires a giant, epic, global budget.

We relinquished our freedom that day, and we were more than happy to see it go. From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and say “They told me to do it! It’s their fault, not mine.” The freedom, God help us, to say “I was only following orders.”-World War Z

One of the main reasons I wanted to work on ‘World War Z’ was because I’m a huge fan of the book, and I love the idea of taking a non-linear story and creating a three-act structure out of it.

Americans worship technology. It’s an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.

Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.

When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.

Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.

The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts

Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe…Turn on the TV…What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products.

. . . show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight for their lives because someone is telling them that they’re going to be okay.

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they’re used.

I think ‘G.I. Joe’ is a perfect example of how I’m the world’s worst businessman. If I were smart, I’d be writing ‘World War Z Part 12’, but I have to go where the muse leads, and I’ve always been a huge ‘G.I. Joe’ fan. I always wanted to know more about these characters, these little plastic figures I played with as a kid.