Jonathan Levine Quotes

When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.

Vampires were an excellent springboard. I still love them; they fascinate me.

Vampires have always been hot. They are one of our most durable monsters. It's one of those stories that galvanizes us early and it's always going on.

And I had always liked vampire stories because they are great material that can be refashioned in lots of ways.

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

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

Are vampires kinky? I didn't know.

The vampire story is something that has existed since 'Nosferatu,' and I don't think it's gonna go away.

Horror is fascinating because it's so seasonal and it's like you've got these periods where slasher movies are in and it's like everyone loves them. Next thing you know zombies are in. Then vampires are acceptable.

When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.

Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys.

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

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.

Horror is like comedy. Woody Allen's comedy is going to be very different from Ben Stiller's comedy which is going to be different from Adam Sandler's comedy which is going to be different from Judd Apatow's comedy. They're all comedy, but they're all very different types and you can enjoy all of them. Horror is the same way.

I like vampires.

With books like 'AD: After Death' and 'Wytches,' a lot of those things are inspired by reading things that terrify me.

Funny enough, I don't like vampires.

'Interview with a Vampire' is my all-time favorite. I also loved 'An American Werewolf in London.'

'Penny Dreadful' is so realistic. The tonality is so earthy and so real that I actually believe it is in the realm of possibility for all these extra species to exist among us.

Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' comics have a drizzly, musty gothic ambience - the same fetid air that H. P. Lovecraft circulated in his fiction.

I think vampires have gotten maybe a little bit silly in the last years where they're all wearing crushed velvet and reading poetry and making sweet love to their victims, you know, it's not really all that scary.

Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.

The next film I'm making is a horror film, and I'm making it with A24. It's a dark break-up movie that becomes a horror film, set in Sweden. That's all I can really say now. It's called 'Midsommar.' Everybody's been spelling it wrong. It's 'midsummer' in Swedish.

I've always been fascinated by mythology or, in modern parlance, by X-Men or vampires.