Holly Black Quotes

Vampires used to be like Dracula, and now they're young teenage kids, so yeah, I like that.

'Interview with a Vampire' made vampires sexy.

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.'

It's not like vampires are inherently bad. It's just people need to make better vampire movies.

I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.

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

Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure.

I'm 48, and I have been in love with vampires since I was six. I was born in 1962, so I've been through three or four waves of vampires. When I was growing up, we had vampire shows and movies. We were still dealing with Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and the old Christopher Lee vampires.

I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara, Coppola, Neil Jordan.

I'm a huge fan of 'The Vampire Chronicles,' both the Neil Jordan film and the books themselves.

I'm not a vampire movie fan, per se. That's not to say that I haven't enjoyed movies with vampires in them.

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

If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.

We love a lot of vampire fiction - both fiction in which the vampires are enemies to be battled or stone cold foxes to be dated.

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.

Since 'Buffy,' vampires have become kind of softer and gushier instead of, you know, man-eating monsters.

It's always been strange to me that someone can say they're a vampire fan. I'm not a non-fan, but it's such an unusual thing to be a fan of. That's like saying, "I love zombie movies! I just love 'em! They're my favorite!" That's more of a psychological problem than being an actual fan.

I've loved vampires for a very long time. In eighth grade, I guess, my research paper was on vampires.

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.

For many years I had heard about an underworld consisting of people who act out a vampire fantasy while I was living in New York. Fortunately for me there are also several books on the phenomena.

I loved Anne Rice's 'Interview with a Vampire' and 'The Vampire Lestat'. I found a copy of 'Interview' when I was in seventh grade at a garage sale for 25 cents. It had a crazy cover.

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

There are many vampires in the world today... you only have to think of the film business.

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

It's pretty crazy. I was thinking about that today, how 'True Blood' has penetrated so much of the cultural zeitgeist. It's truly amazing; it's incredible! The cover of 'Rolling Stone' is major. What's next, the cover of 'Vanity Fair?' When I'm in a 'New Yorker' cartoon, then I will feel like I have made it.