Radha Mitchell Quotes

'Interview with a Vampire' made vampires sexy.

I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies.

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

I had always liked, well, who didn't love Lestat and fall in love with 'Interview with the Vampire,' and 'Nosferatu,' and Coppola's 'Dracula' with the awesome costumes? So I loved all that.

I just love vampires.

I love vampire movies. I think they are sexy.

I was obsessed with vampires when I was 13 or 14.

Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure.

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

Like many of you, I've always been slightly obsessed with vampires, dating back to the prime-time series 'Dark Shadows,' which I followed avidly as a kid.

I'd seen 'Interview with A Vampire' and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, 'I love vampires; I have to do a show about vampires.'

I've always been a Dracula/vampire aficionado, being half-Romanian myself. Dracula has always been close to my heart - in fact, I have a first edition of Bram Stoker's book. I read it over and over again as a young kid.

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.

I'm not a vampire movie fan, per se. That's not to say that I haven't enjoyed movies with vampires in them.

I've loved vampires for a very long time. In eighth grade, I guess, my research paper was on vampires.

One of my favorite vampire movies is 'Nosferatu,' which has a palpable sense of dread that's a pre-war dread.

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

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'm 48, and I have been in love with vampires since I was six. I was born in 1962, so I've been through three or four waves of vampires. When I was growing up, we had vampire shows and movies. We were still dealing with Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and the old Christopher Lee vampires.

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

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

When I started writing about vampires, I swore that I wouldn't touch the 'Dracula' legend because it's been done too many times.

There are many vampires in the world today... you only have to think of the film business.