Tituss Burgess Quotes

I am a vampire/werewolf and sci-fi fanatic. God is so good! I get to play in a series that has all that!

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

I love Urban Fantasy, even though I'm inevitably compared to 'Supernatural,' only a little more edgy.

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

When I heard that 'Dracula' was being made into a series by NBC and Carnival, I couldn't resist. I knew they would do something interesting with it. A period drama with a supernatural twist seemed like a whole lot of fun.

Monsters are a storytelling tool, like domestic realism and close third.

I grew up on genre. If it had a dragon on the cover, I was interested. But horror, especially, really gripped me in its bony fist.

Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories.

One of my favorite things about supernatural fiction is its vast array of creatures.

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.

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

I love really, really deep, dark-as-Russia storylines. I love supernatural aspects. I grew up with ghost stories.

Basically, Urban Fantasy means D&D in New York. Ordinary people have no idea that they share the world with fantastic, supernatural creatures. It can't just be vampires or werewolves; it has to be a whole continuum of fantastic beings, with their own society within society.

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.

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

I'm a professional non-fiction reader, that's what I do. But in my 20s we had our own vampire and witch moment, courtesy of Anne Rice, whose books I read and loved.

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

There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route.

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

Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.

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.