Alexandra Cassavetes quotes:

I think vampires are different from human beings, but they're sentenced to eternity on this planet. They have the same confusion about love and permanence, integrity, and denial. These qualities really are the same in vampire characters as in humans. I think they're universal themes.

Love is a component of many different things - the baggage you bring, the moment, what you need in your life, seeing someone as a portal for understanding everything, and all the intensity that brings. It's not something to count on and act like it's a stable thing.

The vampire movies I embraced as a kid used vampirism as a metaphor that expressed deep sadness and a lot of human qualities.

I sort of forgot about 'Z Channel' after it went off the air in 1989, but once Jason Resnick of Focus Features made the suggestion, I became obsessed all over again. I still am. I'll probably be this way until I'm 80, babbling about 'Z Channel.'

I think vampires would want to find a way to stay attached to the living, the way human beings do, and that is through love, interrelations and meaning.

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

People are fascinated with eternal life and physical power - the idea of having no vulnerability. We all feel small and powerless in the world at times, so the temptation to be a vampire is compelling.

I don't know about relationships. Maybe I'm supposed to travel and make films and meet people and have adventures instead.

I've noticed that when people make vampire movies, they're always determining which of the rules they're going to stick to and which they'll abandon.

I went to this Episcopalian school, and one day I came home and asked my mom, 'What religion are we?' She looked at me and said, 'We're artists.'

I feel too strongly about rearranging reality in a movie. It gives me peace.

It's sweet to hear, but anyone who says that they want to be the next John Cassavetes is crazy. He had it so tough. No one would want to walk a step in his shoes. Believe me - I wouldn't.

I'm not cynical, but I don't really want to have a boyfriend or husband again.

I just want to make something that is true to itself and that interests me; otherwise, how can I have the audacity to think it's going to interest anybody else?

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

I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love that people fall into naturally.

I think of making a movie in such a romantic way.