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I don't like the vampire books. I don't like any of those.

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

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

I have always been into the darker side of things and love the mystery and sexiness of vampires.

I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements.