The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth.

Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.

The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous. To me, vampires are sex. I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

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.

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.

I think it's very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way.