Max Brooks

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1972 age 0

   Born

2. 2013 age 41

   CreditWorld War Zscreenwriter

• MHMichiel Huisman1 title
• EGElyes Gabel1 title
• BPBrad Pitt1 title
• DADavid Andrews1 title
• PCPeter Capaldi1 title
• DMDavid Morse1 title
• DLDamon Lindelof1 title
• MFMatthew Fox1 title
• IBIan Bryce1 title
• RBRoger Barton1 title

• Parents

  • ABAnne Bancroft
  • MBMel Brooks

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Partner, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• The dead walk among us. Zombies, ghouls — no matter what their label — these somnambulists are the greatest threat to humanity, other than humanity itself.

  Max Brooks, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Joy, sadness, confidence, anxiety, love, hatred, fear — all of these feelings and thousands more that make up the human “heart” are as useless to the living dead as the organ of the same name. Who knows if this is humanity’s greatest weakness or strength? The debate continues, and probably will forever.

  Max Brooks, CC BY-SA 4.0

• They teach you how to resist the enemy, how to protect your mind and spirit. They don’t teach you how to resist your own people, especially people who think they’re trying to “help” you see “the truth.”

  Max Brooks, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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.”

  Max Brooks, CC BY-SA 4.0

• No one would have expected [the escalation of nuclear hostilities], but then again, no one would have expected the dead to rise, now would they? Only one could have foreseen this, and I don’t believe in him anymore.

  Max Brooks, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The opening bombardment took out at least three-quarters of them. Only three-quarters.

  Max Brooks, CC BY-SA 4.0