My job on 'Dark Shadows' was to make it fun and funny, first and foremost. It can still be dark and it can still even be gory and gothic at times, but it also needed to be fun and it needed to be an experience that people would enjoy having.

I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in- and I am sure my dinners are good enough for her, since she is an unmarried woman of seven-and-twenty, and as such should expect little more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness.

What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.

I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard.

I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.

I dare say she means to keep you from his attentions. Your honour demands she be slain.

Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?