Nelsan Ellis Quotes

I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.

'Interview with a Vampire' made vampires sexy.

I have no intention of making vampires cool. Absolutely not. They're not cool.

I just love vampires.

Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.

I love vampire movies. I think they are sexy.

Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.

I am a big fan of vampires. I've always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romanticism and erotic kind of nature of the immortal being, the undead who lives on human blood.

I don't want to be a vampire. A lot of other people do and I think it's that dual nature - we have, you know, terrifying/intriguing.

I think that vampires are sexy. The idea of them being untouchable has been really exciting for people.

Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.

I don't want to be a sexy vampire.

Dracula can sustain many interpretations and exists in many phantasmal forms... and Johnny Alucard is my attempt to explore the multiplicity of Draculas unloosed on the world in the long wake of Stoker's novel.

Actually I liked that 'Let the Right One In,' that Swedish vampire movie.

Vampires are a genre now.

I happen to like vampires more than zombies.

It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism.

One of the reasons I love devils so much is not based in my faith, but because as a kid, I grew up loving heavy metal and horror movies, and the devil is such a huge presence in both.

I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.

I wanted to make an adult vampire film, not something for children.

I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.

The vampire movies I embraced as a kid used vampirism as a metaphor that expressed deep sadness and a lot of human qualities.

I certainly didn't want to make another movie that's 'just another Dracula film.'

I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vampire ever.

I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.