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.' — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I wanted to make an adult vampire film, not something for children. — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I think the reason vampire movies have been so popular over time is that they share so many parallels with human beings. — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
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.… — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I sort of forgot about 'Z Channel' after it went off the air in 1989, but once Jason Resnick of Focus Features made the… — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
Love is a component of many different things - the baggage you bring, the moment, what you need in your life, seeing someone as… — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I feel too strongly about rearranging reality in a movie. It gives me peace. — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I don't know about relationships. Maybe I'm supposed to travel and make films and meet people and have adventures instead. — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I didn't plan to be a director until I was 35. For years I wanted to do anything but! — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
There are so many people I know who could be the greatest film-maker but who will never get the chance to make a movie;… — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
It's a bloody shame that all the video stores have gone, I'll tell you. Everything's so mechanical now. It's all so if-you-liked-this-then-you'll-like-this. There's no… — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
The vampire movies I embraced as a kid used vampirism as a metaphor that expressed deep sadness and a lot of human qualities. — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love that people… — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
People are fascinated with eternal life and physical power - the idea of having no vulnerability. We all feel small and powerless in the… — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
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… — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
