I haven't ever seen a period drama that has a fantasy element to it, that's set in London, that's as lavish as it is, and that's made for American TV.

- Oliver Jackson-Cohen

It was just hilarious how my first reaction was, "Oh, no, it's another vampire show. I'm not interested." And then, I read the script and thought it …

- Oliver Jackson-Cohen

Vampires have been romanticized, and this is bringing it right back to being vampiric. I think there's something sexy and raw about that.

- Oliver Jackson-Cohen

We read the [Dracula] scripts, but Jess [De Gouw] and I are completely taken out of the hunts and anything with Van Helsing. We're just living our li…

- Oliver Jackson-Cohen

I went to a French school, so we didn't study Bram Stoker there. I just thought it was a genius thing.

- Oliver Jackson-Cohen

I'm perfectly honest, I've never seen Twilight, I've never seen The Vampire Diaries, and I've never seen True Blood, or anything like that.

- Oliver Jackson-Cohen

When I read the script, I said to one of the producers, "I know you probably want Jonathan Harker really fluffy, but I'm not gonna do that. It needs …

- Oliver Jackson-Cohen

Dracula isn't just another vampire show. It's something entirely different that I personally feel I've never seen on American TV before.

- Oliver Jackson-Cohen

I think it's very rare, as an actor, that you get to a script, or an idea of a script, and you go, "Oh, I just have to do that!" It fell into place v…

- Oliver Jackson-Cohen