The role always attracts me. Sometimes I can read something and I can barely see the rest of the script.

I guess I just take things as they come now, as far as that goes. I get really excited to do the project, but I don't think too much beyond that.

I just adored Peter Medak, the director. He's such a character, but he was so much fun. Some directors come in and they truly get angry about things.Peter was still in a fantastic mood. He's a delightful person. He threw a big party at the end of the pilot, which was so sweet. And his wife is an opera singer. He's just a very warm, crazy beautiful individual.

Aaron Spelling was a huge fan of vampires, and everything in that genre. He just really loved the entire subject of vampires and he was really passionate about it. If you really like the idea of this other world and the intricacies of it, because there were a lot of them, and once you're hooked, it's always something that's a fascination to you.

When need something really aggressive, outrageous and not done half-way, I feel like I'm your girl.

I worked a lot with Mark Frankel, and he was really just an incredibly tender soul. He liked his hair just so and his suit. He was a good-looking man, and he cared about looking together.

When I get excited about a character, I'll start doing things as the character and thinking about what the character would do.