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The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.

Vampires used to be like Dracula, and now they're young teenage kids, so yeah, I like that.

I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.

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.

The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.

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

It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?

I'm not a vampire movie fan, per se. That's not to say that I haven't enjoyed movies with vampires in them.

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.'

Vampirism, for me, was a way to live in fantasy and have superpowers, but not just in a really perfect, happy, everything is great way. It's superpowers with a cost. It's having to be the villain, and what do you do about that.