I think the reason vampire movies have been so popular over time is that they share so many parallels with human beings.

I think vampires would want to find a way to stay attached to the living, the way human beings do, and that is through love, interrelations and meaning.

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.

Human beings have always been mythmakers.

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

I think it's a part of us as human beings that we search outside of ourselves for meaning.