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

It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?

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.

I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.