Alexandra Cassavetes Quotes

I think vampires would want to find a way to stay attached to the living, the way human beings do, and that is through love, interrelations and meaning.

I think the reason vampire movies have been so popular over time is that they share so many parallels with human beings.

The idea of death is something that doesn't make sense to a lot of people. But to bring something back - or vampires who never die - is a logical fantasy for a human being.

I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.

The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.

I think people are universal.

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.

I've found that the common humanity of people is the most relatable thing, and even if your stories are very specific about a different place, if you have a relatable core of humanity, people will go along with it.

I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.

Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.

'The 5th Wave' is sci-fi, but I tried very hard to ground the story in very human terms and in those universal themes that transcend genre. How do we define ourselves? What, exactly, does it mean to be human? What remains after everything we trust, everything we believe in and rely upon, has been stripped away?

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.

In soaps, people come back from the dead all the time, to the point where death is just a bus stop.

The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?

One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

I have always been into the darker side of things and love the mystery and sexiness of vampires.

I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.

Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino makes zombie movies, which probably comes as a surprise to him. At the center of his best and most recent pictures are the walking dead, characters in a race with themselves across mortality's finish line, their spirits arriving before the rest of them.

There is an eternal humanity that crosses through all people, and it's more interesting often when it's about struggle - not people with champagne glasses.

Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul.