Gloria Votsis Quotes

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

Are vampires kinky? I didn't know.

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

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

Actually I liked that 'Let the Right One In,' that Swedish vampire movie.

Vampires are a genre now.

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

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.

You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes when you're dealing with art or the life of Christ or the oeuvre of Shakespeare, you know, it's a little more ambitious.

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

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

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.

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.'

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

I don't really know what it is about vampires that makes them such a powerful symbol, metaphor, whatever in people's consciousness. But I do know they're tremendously powerful. I mean, there's a vampire on 'Sesame Street.' And Count Chocula. I don't know why it's so powerful.

I happen to like vampires more than zombies.

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

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

One of the reasons I love devils so much is not based in my faith, but because as a kid, I grew up loving heavy metal and horror movies, and the devil is such a huge presence in both.

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

People have always had a fascination with the supernatural going back to the beginning of time and with vampires in particular. This phenomenon is not new.

Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it's like those myths were exported to Hollywood, leaving Europe the room to develop a new tradition as a way of processing its traumas, particularly the two world wars.

I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.

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