I think vampires would want to find a way to stay attached to the living, the way human beings do, and that is through love, interrelations and meaning.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.
People are fascinated with eternal life and physical power - the idea of having no vulnerability. We all feel small and powerless in the world at times, so the temptation to be a vampire is compelling.
Vampires are so sexy and powerful - they're so otherworldly; they have eternal life and youth.
If vampires and werewolves were walking around today, there would be chaos. People would be losing their minds.
Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.
Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.
I always thought of vampires, especially the young-adult ones, as a metaphor for sex - sucking blood, forbidden, taboo. I think they just ooze sex. Vampires are all the big themes in life in one attractive, bloodsucking package.
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.
If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?
I'd seen 'Interview with A Vampire' and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, 'I love vampires; I have to do a show about vampires.'
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