Behind the scenes with George Romero - Land of the Dead

"George was under a lot of pressure, compressing the script, doing whatever was necessary to meet the new economic crunch. I’d seen him under such conditions before, with TWO EVIL EYES, when the lab ruined five days of shooting. His kind nature remains, but you can feel the strain. We first ran into each other in a white, endless corridor inside an abandoned military base outside the city. It felt very DAWN OF THE DEAD to see him ambling in my direction. When he realized it was me, there was a warm hug. I hadn’t seen him for a few years.  It had been 26 years since I first documented his work, and 15 years since the last time. He was preoccupied, so I quickly let him continue on his way.
Then my crew and producer and I went exploring. The facility was vast: bigger than any two film studios combined. You could film two features within eyeshot of each other but the sound on one wouldn’t intrude on the other. At one point our cameraman pointed and said “I think that’s John LeGuizamo.” I looked.  The tiny figure was two football fields away, and looked like an ant. There was no way to distinguish any features on it, and yet…it was definitely LeGuizamo. Just…something about it. So I hopped out of ‘Dead Reckoning’, where we were setting up lights and gels for interviews, and trotted in the distant humanoid’s direction.  When I got within one football field I shouted, “John?” It stopped, paused, and headed in my direction. I kept talking, explaining who we were. He wasn’t on our schedule to shoot, but slowly I reeled him in, and when he got close enough to converse with me, he figured he might as well go all the way and do the interview, so we hauled him into the anti-zombie vehicle and stole a few minutes of his time."