I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.

I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.

We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

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.'

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.

I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life.