Everyone wants to see someone shoot someone in the head.

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."

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

We read the [Dracula] scripts, but Jess [De Gouw] and I are completely taken out of the hunts and anything with Van Helsing. We're just living our lives, as our characters.

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

I'm perfectly honest, I've never seen Twilight, I've never seen The Vampire Diaries, and I've never seen True Blood, or anything like that.

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