Joanna Going Quotes

There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.

'Dark Shadows' was the spark that lit the fire of my childhood imagination. It wasn't polished; it wasn't perfect. But it gave us characters with real personalities and complicated motivations.

I definitely fell in love with 'Dracula' when I was 13. I found it so fascinating and so dark and romantic.

One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.

I became a horror fan during the early 1960s, back when Hammer was putting out their groundbreaking 'Dracula' series with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, and grew up watching 'Dark Shadows.'

I find inspiration in the movies I've loved, especially all films ever made about Dracula.

Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.

When I was a wee little kid, I used to watch 'Dark Shadows' all the time, so I was a Barnabas Collins fan.

I read 'Rebecca' when I was a teenager and was swept away by the powerful voice, the gut wrenching suspense and the dark, twisted love story at its center.

With its missed lines and falling tombstones, 'Dark Shadows' was sometimes inadvertently funny, but what made the show work was the fact that the actors and the writers took it all very seriously.

'24' was so much fun. That was one of my all-time favourite jobs.

I don't really begin with ideas about genre. I certainly wrote a gothic novel, 'The Keep,' that conformed to and, in some ways, played with every convention I knew of to work with in the gothic, but the way I came to it was very instinctive and visceral.

Nosferatu' has a very close, magical connection for me.

I loved Tristan in Nancy Collins' run. I love Vampirella having a werewolf paramour; it's too fun. Coleridge had to come with them, of course, to set up her spooky new manor up in the hills of Los Angeles, and also because he's just a delight.

My favorite movie is 'House of Wax.'

Edinburgh is a sort of gothic fairytale city, and it can be a gothic horror city as well.

I love all that kind of gothic Bram Stoker kind of thing. I love to get lost in that kind of escapism.

When I was 14, 15, 16, I was wearing 'Edward Scissorhands' and 'Nightmare before Christmas' stuff. I saw 'Sleepy Hollow' a dozen times.

Ryan Murphy's 'Hollywood,' about the beginnings of the film industry, made me laugh and cry.

It's that show Friends. Ruined coffee forever.

I'd like to keep doing film and TV, and I definitely can appreciate a good theme song. If it's memorable, that's a great thing.

I still feel like a little boy on the set, watching the movie magic being made.

One of the things I liked about bringing this show back was that it gives people something to look forward to. In doing the show, I was very aware that some people will watch it all in one night, but there is enough that it will be fun to re-watch. Hopefully, people will be laughing a lot.

The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes.

The movie is so fun. I've done period pieces before but nothing with this twist. And the movie is just full of such wonderful people, such young actors - people like Matt Smith that I've been friends with for a while.