I discovered the fun of genre is… you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the genre – whether it’s a giant monster or a… 12-year-old vampire. Whatever it is, you can sink something underneath the surface and make a personal film under the guise of great fun romp. – Matt Reeves
Joss Whedon who created ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer,’ ‘Angel,’ and all that… he is a genius. – Christian Kane
My grandfather used to be a dentist, and he made me these retainers that have vampire teeth on them. – Katherine McNamara
I like zombie movies. I like ‘The Walking Dead;’ I like the metaphor of it, simply because when we go with the zombie concept – if you’re bitten by a zombie, you don’t transform into something else like a vampire or a werewolf or whatever. You become something that’s not you. – Marilyn Manson
Vampires are immortal, you can do whatever you want, and get away with it. And there’s the seduction part of course, sex is a big part of the vampire thing. – Jonny Lee Miller
Eroticism bubbles beneath the surface of every vampire story, but Anne Rice is a writer to make the pot boil. – Janet Maslin
I’m about to play an emaciated pregnant vampire, so I’ve stopped using as much butter as Paula Deen – just until ‘Breaking Dawn’ is over. – Kristen Stewart
Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire. – Karl Liebknecht
Similarities in the vampire genre are so rampant that there’s really no such thing as an original idea – only an original take on an idea that’s been done before. – Jeaniene Frost
The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you’ve lived it up. At least, you hope. – Octavia Spencer
I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vampire ever. – Radha Mitchell
The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren’t monsters from the get-go, they’re human beings first… and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be. – Rachelle Lefevre
I grew up watching ‘Dawson’s Creek,’ and I started watching ‘The Vampire Diaries’ when I was auditioning because I wanted to get a feel of it… then I totally got hooked! – Phoebe Tonkin
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. – Park Chan-wook
I’m such a fan of Daniel Waters, who wrote the script, and also Mark Waters, his brother, who directed. ‘Vampire Academy’ has, I think, an iconic director. – Sami Gayle
It’s almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me. – Sheryl Lee
You have Vampire Weekend who have more African references musically than most African-American artists. – Solange Knowles