“I know they’re trying to clean up Hollywood Boulevard,” he said eyeing the odd, colorful crowd at rush hour. “But you’ll always be able to get a tattoo here. It’ll just cost more.”
At the time, he was promoting the horror film “Monkey Shines.”
“I’ve been criticized the most for not writing good-guy/bad-guy characters,” he explained. “But my people aren’t clear-cut because real people aren’t clear-cut. They’re usually very gray, very ambiguous.
“That’s what makes this story so disturbing because you don’t know where you stand with everyone. There’s a wonderful line in the original novel — ‘the devil is instinct.’ And I think that’s what I responded to most–the theme of the evil within, the Jekyll-and-Hyde quality of the character.”
Source: LA TIMES: George A. Romero, ‘Night of the Living Dead’ creator, dies at 77