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There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as everybody knows, I didn't speak, because I said I couldn't say the lines.

I wanted to make an adult vampire film, not something for children.

Certainly Dracula did bring a hell of a lot of joy to a hell of a lot of women. And if this erotic quality hadn't come out we'd have been very disappointed.

I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.

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

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 figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.

When I heard that 'Dracula' was being made into a series by NBC and Carnival, I couldn't resist. I knew they would do something interesting with it. A period drama with a supernatural twist seemed like a whole lot of fun.