Elizabeth Kostova Quotes

To be in something as iconic as a Dracula film, and to be playing Jessica van Helsing, who would have been Dracula's choice for a bride, through history and beyond the grave, was a thrill.

More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work.

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was a story about the fear of immigration; the bad old bloodsucker swooping in from Eastern Europe and also preying upon 'our' vulnerable women.

For my part, if the audience wanted to see Dracula again, I would be happy to reprise the role. It is an immortal character that can appear anywhere because it lies beyond time. Possibilities are endless.

I'd rather be with Dracula than the Wolfman.

There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.

I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .

Dracula can sustain many interpretations and exists in many phantasmal forms... and Johnny Alucard is my attempt to explore the multiplicity of Draculas unloosed on the world in the long wake of Stoker's novel.

I definitely fell in love with 'Dracula' when I was 13. I found it so fascinating and so dark and romantic.

Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.

I read 'Dracula' in high school. I've been around vampires forever.

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.

Dracula appeared at a time of great technological revolution, utilizing telegraphs, typing machines, and blood transfusions.

I feel like I'm Dracula, dude, like, um... Nosferatu, you know.

I love all that kind of gothic Bram Stoker kind of thing. I love to get lost in that kind of escapism.

Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.

I am Dracula.... I bid you welcome.

Vampires are always going to be sexy.

Vampires have become tragic or romantic figures. Vampire are largely seduction tales. They're no longer the scary creature in the dark.

I happen to like vampires more than zombies.

It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism.

I don't drink blood, and last time I looked in the mirror, I had a reflection.

Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.

Vampires have always been hot. They are one of our most durable monsters. It's one of those stories that galvanizes us early and it's always going on.

You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes when you're dealing with art or the life of Christ or the oeuvre of Shakespeare, you know, it's a little more ambitious.