The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.

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

My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.

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

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

In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get freaked out. I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it's horrifying. But that's just human nature.

Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I TiVo everything and wait until the end of a season and watch it all over a weekend. For me that's a really satisfying experience, like reading a book.