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.'

Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?

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

Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

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.