World War Z Quotes

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

  Max Brooks

  Heart, Rose, Monsters

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• There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

  Max Brooks

  Lying, Kind

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, Crown Pub

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• 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.

  Max Brooks

  Lying, Fire, Deceit

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.166, Broadway Books

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

  Max Brooks

  Fear, Real, Thinking

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.249, Broadway Books

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• Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.

  Max Brooks

  Path, Sometimes

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, Crown Pub

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

  Max Brooks

  Believe, People, Stupidity

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.32, Broadway Books

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• 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

  Max Brooks

  War, Order, World

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.83, Broadway Books

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

  Max Brooks

  Believe, Ability, I Believe

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.160, Broadway Books

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• . . . 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.

  Max Brooks

  Morning, Fighting, People

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, Crown Pub

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• Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.

  Max Brooks

  Emotion, Primal Fear, Sells

  Max Brooks (2010). “World War Z”, p.48, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• 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.

  Max Brooks

  People, Tvs, Commodity

  "World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War". Book by Max Brooks, 2007.

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• Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.

  Max Brooks

  Commodity, Valuable, Universe

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.55, Broadway Books

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• Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.

  Max Brooks

  Race, Humanity, Imagine

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• [...]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.

  Max Brooks

  Hurt, Fear, Real

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.103, Broadway Books

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• Whatever bro, tell it to the whales

  Max Brooks

  Whales, Bros

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.341, Broadway Books

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

  Max Brooks

  Technology, Worship, Zeitgeist

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.166, Broadway Books

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• If your Soviet neighbor is trying to set fire to your house, you can't be worrying about the Arab down the block. If suddenly it's the Arab in your backyard , you can't be worrying about the People's Republic of China and if one day the ChiComs show up at your front door with an eviction notice in one hand and a Molotov cocktail in the other, then the last thing you're going do is look over his shoulder for a walking corpse.

  Max Brooks

  Block, Fire, Doors

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.47, Broadway Books

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• Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.

  Max Brooks

  Generations, Mess

  "World War Z". Book by Max Brooks, 2006.

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• The time came where I was able to write an original screenplay [Allied], and it would be read and noticed. I had a meeting with Brad [Pitt], just around the time that he was making World War Z. I basically told him the story and said, "This is what I want to do," and he really responded, so that helped me put the thing together and write it.

  Steven Knight

  War, Writing, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Max Brooks

  War, Epic, Giants

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• 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.

  Marc Forster

  War, Book, Ideas

  "Marc Forster: The Eye of the Swarm". Interview with Jamie Lincoln, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 20, 2013.

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• 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.

  Tom Savini

  War, People, Scary

  Source: collider.com

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• World War Z is out today. The big zombie movie. The trailer looks scary. You see hordes of bodies climbing and rolling over each other. It's like Black Friday at the mall.

  Craig Ferguson

  Friday, War, Climbing

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• I'm actually reading 'World War Z' again! It's incredibly realistic and it's written as an oral history through interviews with different characters. Max Brooks wrote this book in so many different voices. There are about forty or so. It's incredible. When I finish 'World War Z' I'm going to go back and start again on the 'Game of Thrones' series.

  Nathan Fillion

  War, Book, Reading

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• 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.

  Max Brooks

  War, Smart, Character

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 9, 2010.

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