Guillermo del Toro Quotes

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

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.

Vampires are a genre now.

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

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

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.

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.

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

As you study vampire legend throughout history, it goes back to almost every culture. South Africa, Indonesia, crazy places have that legend and that idea of immortality.

Are vampires kinky? I didn't know.

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

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

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 don't want to be a vampire. A lot of other people do and I think it's that dual nature - we have, you know, terrifying/intriguing.

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.

Vampires, they're like the gift that won't stop giving. It's a good fruitful place to find comedy because they take themselves so seriously.

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.

More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work.

I happen to like vampires more than zombies.

There is a certain swagger with vampires.

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

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

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.

I am a big fan of vampires. I've always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romanticism and erotic kind of nature of the immortal being, the undead who lives on human blood.

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