The vampire movies I embraced as a kid used vampirism as a metaphor that expressed deep sadness and a lot of human qualities.

I think vampires are different from human beings, but they're sentenced to eternity on this planet. They have the same confusion about love and permanence, integrity, and denial. These qualities really are the same in vampire characters as in humans. I think they're universal themes.

I think the reason vampire movies have been so popular over time is that they share so many parallels with human beings.

People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Only through delayed gratification could you be able to come up with other virtues, character, trait that will really qualify you to call yourself a human being.