Alan Ball Quotes

I just love vampires.

I thought about how I'd play a vampire for awhile because I grew up watching vampire films and reading books.

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

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

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.

My favorite vampire movie used to be Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' but now '30 Days of Night' took its place. I think it's brilliant that somebody would be so thoughtful as to put these vampires in a place like Barrow, Alaska, where there are actually '30 Days of Night.'

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 was obsessed with vampires when I was 13 or 14.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I'm into the vampire stuff. I think it's really fascinating and interesting. There's a lot of history behind all of that, and if you look into it, it's really interesting stuff.

I read 'Dracula' in high school. I've been around vampires forever.

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.

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.

When people are like, 'What do you think of this vampire craze?' - well, I don't really feel like it ever ended, personally, 'cause I've always been into them, like 'Underworld.'

I know about various fictional and folkloric vampire mythoses the way other people know about the personal life of celebrities.

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 love vampire movies. I think they are sexy.

It's cool to play a vampire and be a part of this new, hot genre.

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