The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television..

I'd seen 'Interview with A Vampire' and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, 'I love vampires; I have to do a show about vampires.'.

Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by..

I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg. I don't necessarily believe in vampires or werewolves or that kin….

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do..

Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from..

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing..

I felt pride, wonderful pride, when I was captain. It was an honour to take over from Labby. Anybody who has ever captained a big club, which Everton….

I think sexuality is a window into someone's soul..

I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It ….

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

I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it..

It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go,….

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 a metaphor for a shadow orga….

Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a w….

Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV..

Well, here's the thing with relationships on 'True Blood': Once they happen then you have to throw a monkey-wrench into them, because to have people ….

That's the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no rea….

I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell..

Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same..

Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst..