Octavia E. Butler Quotes

I'm aware of 'Twilight,' but I've never seen the movies or read any of the books. Frankly, the story leaves me cold - why do a vampire story about abstinence?

I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.

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

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

I read a lot of fantasy and grew up on 'Star Wars' and 'Star Trek.' I loved going to Middle Earth. 'Dungeons & Dragons' was a huge influence.

Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off that.

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

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

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.

Twilight' has a supernatural reference to it with werewolves and vampires. 'Harry Potter' has magic. 'The Hunger Games' is about real people put into extreme situations and circumstances.

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

I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably for 400 or 500 years, well predating modern science.

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

Vampire teeth really aren't very efficient, are they? It looks very messy. I'm not sure it's the best way to get a pint off anyone.

I read all the books for 'Twilight.'

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.

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.

'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction.

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.'

I think 'House of Night' blew up the way it did because it offered so many people a fantasy that they can be... vampires are very alluring.

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.

Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden.

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

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.