Ghouls Quotes

Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.

When they first cast me, I was a pretty avid fan and vampire movies and Celtic mythology, so I was excited to get a chance to walk in Doyle's shoes and have fun with it.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

The success of the film is down to the crew.

John and I weren't capable of getting back to Kenwood from there, so the four of us sat up for the rest of the night as the walls moved, the plants talked, other people looked like ghouls and time stood still. It was horrific: I hated the lack of control and not knowing what was going on or what would happen next.

Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact.

I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.

The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.

When I was filming 'The Haunting Hour', my co-stars Emily Osment, Brittany Curran and I paid a visit to a haunted house - all dressed up as vampires! We really confused the workers.

I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.

As soon as people see my face on a movie screen, they knew two things: first, I'm not going to get the girl, and second, I'll get a cheap funeral before the picture is over.

We knew Chris Matthews had no shame. Now we also know the king of TV ghouls has no souls

All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.

It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.

The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.

If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.

The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?

I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.

I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.

But with the Berlin, I was able to allow him to get near, but not quite near enough, and I knew where to draw the line with the fortresses I had set up.

There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.

I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me

When I heard the ghouls coming for you, all I cared about was reaching you in time. How often must I tell you that you mean more to me than vengeance? I can live without defeating my enemies, but I cannot live without you.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way.

In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

We knew we did not want to record at Impulse Studios again, after the experience of recording in a 'real' studio in London for the Radio One session we did.

We had two cameras, so they could turn it on and shoot as much as we wanted. You don't have to worry about wasting money on film. A lot more takes are possible.

The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.

It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.

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

I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film.

Scheherazade, of course, was always in the back of my mind, because she's also a storyteller identified as female who tells a lot of anti-female stories. There's a parade in The Arabian Nights of sorceresses, adulteresses, ghouls, sirens, harridans.

When you make friends with fear, it can’t rule you.

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

I was amazed at the support that I got when I was in there. And when I came out people knew that I was back on track. I was interested in working again.

I supply the music for Vampires, which is a new series that's coming out.