I think vampires are different from human beings, but they're sentenced to eternity on this planet. They have the same confusion about love and permanence, integrity, and denial. These qualities really are the same in vampire characters as in humans. I think they're universal themes.
Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was a story about the fear of immigration; the bad old bloodsucker swooping in from Eastern Europe and also preying upon 'our' vulnerable women.
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.
All writers are vampires.
Vampires aren't made - they're just born that way, and no one knows why. They're sort of a race unto themselves.
It wouldn't be 'True Blood' if somebody didn't die.
I have no intention of making vampires cool. Absolutely not. They're not cool.
I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick.
I think the reason vampire movies have been so popular over time is that they share so many parallels with human beings.
Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?
Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.
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.
Vampirism is like celebrity now. Vampires are these eternally young, thin, sexy apparitions of perpetual nightlife and absolutely nothing like their folkloric European boogeyman predecessors. We don't even make our vampires sleep in coffins anymore, or the ground.
