You know... the wonderful thing about Dark Shadows, the thing about going and looking back at it. It was so sucsessful at creating its own world.

I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.

I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.

The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.

When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing.

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.