Paul Wesley Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Are vampires kinky? I didn't know.

I think vampires have gotten maybe a little bit silly in the last years where they're all wearing crushed velvet and reading poetry and making sweet love to their victims, you know, it's not really all that scary.

I've been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back - I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon, Shirley Jackson, lots of great horror and paranormal fiction.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

There's no set-in-stone way to be a vampire, especially with the evil ones.

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.

I think it's cyclical. Zombies have been around for ages, and vampires have run their course; we've had so many vampire movies.