Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.

If you don't invest in the characters, you don't care if they get killed. It's more fun if you know them.

When you're an actor and you can set your arm on fire, you feel kind of magical.

I'd like to see a really good kind of closeted 1950s vampire movies. The war is over, the Korean war is over, we're happy now, a little bit of Cold War paranoia ya know, and then mix it up a little bit. I just think there are so many avenues that you could do that.

I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.

When you're on a sound stage and you're shooting a fire stunt, this weird thing happens where the fire eats up all the oxygen and everybody gets a little dingy.

We used to take girls to scary movies all the time, I don't know about you, but that was the place we would go for dates.