Jessica De Gouw Quotes

Actually I liked that 'Let the Right One In,' that Swedish vampire movie.

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.

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.

I love all Daphne du Maurier's stuff. And just enjoying period dramas, really... wanting to do something drastically different from 'Nighty Night', the chance to write very different language.

It's cool to play a vampire and be a part of this new, hot genre.

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.

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.

I'm into the vampire stuff. I think it's really fascinating and interesting. There's a lot of history behind all of that, and if you look into it, it's really interesting stuff.

It's kind of a dream to play a vampire in a movie.

'Penny Dreadful' is so realistic. The tonality is so earthy and so real that I actually believe it is in the realm of possibility for all these extra species to exist among us.

My favorite vampire movie used to be Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' but now '30 Days of Night' took its place. I think it's brilliant that somebody would be so thoughtful as to put these vampires in a place like Barrow, Alaska, where there are actually '30 Days of Night.'

Do I believe in vampires? I've got an agent. Even more, I've got a manager. So yes, I believe full well in vampires and blood-letting.

Dracula isn't just another vampire show. It's something entirely different that I personally feel I've never seen on American TV before.

The idea of Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Dracula, all I could think of was, why haven't they done this with him before? It's such a genius idea. 'Dracula' has always been done as film, so it's been an hour and 40 minutes. What we're done is 10 hours of 'Dracula,' so you have a lot of freedom with all the different mythologies and nuances.

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.

When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.

When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.

Vampires are a genre now.

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.

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

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

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