The top 10 most inspiring quotes by Tom Savini
- Forget Halloween – Halloween to me is like every day. It’s a lifestyle.
- Film is a truly magical medium. You can create illusions of reality, make people think they’ve seen things that they really haven’t – like blowing a guy’s head off with a shotgun.
- Maybe some people got sick, but what I saw was people applauding the effects. When the helicopter zombie stood up, people applauded. When a guy gets the top of his head lopped off, are they applauding that some horrible thing happened to a person, or are they applauding how it was technically pulled off in a realistic way?
- If you’re thinking about coming to Tom Savini’s Special Make-Up Effects Program just STOP. Stop THINKING about it and just DO it. Aren’t we talking about making your dreams come true? Our students’ attitude is ‘This is school?’… because they are having so much fun every day doing what they love… and… they get a degree!
- Film is a truly magical medium.
- My favorite movies are love stories.
- They’re [zombies] us, you can also have the wrestler zombie, the clown zombie, the Jay Leno zombie and the nun zombie. I’ve never seen the clown werewolf or vampire. But because zombies are us, at the lowest possible level, they’re a lot more versatile for storytelling.
- Unless you’re a psycho, there’s no such thing as a vampire and there’s no such thing as a werewolf. But there certainly are people who could be controlled by a drug like Scopolamine, to lose all will and do your bidding. That’s what the whole voodoo zombie thing was about, with chemical mind control, so it is possible to have real zombies. Maybe the [doomsday] preppers weren’t so wrong. I thought they were idiots. How can you prepare for a zombie apocalypse?
- 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.
- Tell everyone to vote: Tom Savini for Governor on ‘The Walking Dead’!
Tom Savini, born on November 3, 1946, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is an iconic figure in the world of special effects makeup, acting, and directing.
Known for his pioneering work in horror films, Savini has earned the title “The Sultan of Splatter” due to his groundbreaking effects in classics like Dawn of the Dead (1978), Friday the 13th (1980), and Creepshow (1982).
Inspired by Lon Chaney and horror films of his youth, Savini pursued his passion by studying makeup effects while serving as a combat photographer in Vietnam—a role that gave him firsthand knowledge of gore and anatomy.
Savini’s innovative techniques revolutionized practical effects in cinema, setting a standard for realism and shock in horror. Aside from effects, he’s appeared on-screen in films like From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) and directed Night of the Living Dead (1990). A mentor to many, Savini continues to teach and inspire upcoming artists in horror, leaving an indelible mark on the genre.
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