I rarely watch TV, and in the past two years, I've done three TV shows. It's quite interesting.

Dracula isn't just another vampire show. It's something entirely different that I personally feel I've never seen on American TV before.

You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.

I went to a French school, so we didn't study Bram Stoker there. I just thought it was a genius thing.

Nowadays, everything is so gratuitous. The violence is suggested, and it's much more impactful than showing everything.

I've been offered quite a few network shows, over the past couple of years, and always turned them down because I never wanted the commitment. The way that it works in America, you do a pilot and then you wait, and I just thought that wasn't really what I was interested in doing, in that moment.

When I read the script, I said to one of the producers, "I know you probably want Jonathan Harker really fluffy, but I'm not gonna do that. It needs to be a mask. There needs to be a duel between Harker and Dracula."