Felt Quote by Anne Rice

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

Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.

— Alan Ball

It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as…

— Alan Ball

Yeah, obviously we use vampires as a metaphor for something else, something deeper than just the supernatural. But there's just something about the bloodsucking…

— Gerard Way

A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's real self…

— Kelly Link

I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.

— Alan Ball

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

— Bill Nighy

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

— Madison McKinley

I think vampires have gotten maybe a little bit silly in the last years where they're all wearing crushed velvet and reading poetry and…

— Josh Hartnett

Vampires used to be like Dracula, and now they're young teenage kids, so yeah, I like that.

— Kodi Smit-McPhee

The only vampires I've ever seen are the Goths trying to get a glimpse of Anne Rice's house, who drink strawberry sodas and tell…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I always thought of vampires, especially the young-adult ones, as a metaphor for sex - sucking blood, forbidden, taboo. I think they just ooze…

— Melissa de la Cruz