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Dracula, if he could see modern corporations, wouldn't like them much. He took care of his people, at least as he saw it. They had very little freedom, but they had a protector.

Vampires are a genre now.

There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us where we park our anxieties, whether its over-powerful women, death or damnation. We make our own monsters.

I've noticed that when people make vampire movies, they're always determining which of the rules they're going to stick to and which they'll abandon.

When I started writing about vampires, I swore that I wouldn't touch the 'Dracula' legend because it's been done too many times.

There are many vampires in the world today... you only have to think of the film business.

Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.

We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty and property.

People really want to set up these rivalries because there's a lot of vampire books out there. People want to believe we're all fierce rivals, and really there's just so much camaraderie with authors. Everyone kind of boosts each other.

Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.