“Interview with the Vampire” quotes
(1994)Neil Jordan
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in 1994
Title Interview with the Vampire
Original title Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Year 1994
Director Neil Jordan
Genre Romance, Horror
Original title Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Year 1994
Director Neil Jordan
Genre Romance, Horror
Plot – Louis is a vampire who decides to tell to the journalist Mallory his experience, begun in 1791. Louis De Pointe Du Lac, a wealthy landowner from New Orleans, lives solitary in his luxurious house and he's consumed by the pain for the loss of his wife and his daughter. Lestat, a man with a perverse appeal and devoted to vampirism, meets him and decides to introduce him to the world of the undead. Louis becomes attached to an orphaned girl and Lestat noticed it, so he vampirizes the child as a gift to his friend. Claudia becomes a vampire herself.
All actors – Brad Pitt, Christian Slater, Virginia McCollam, John McConnell, Tom Cruise, Mike Seelig, Bellina Logan, Thandie Newton, Lyla Hay Owen, Lee E. Scharfstein, Indra Ové, Helen McCrory, Monte Montague, Kirsten Dunst, Nathalie Bloch-Lainé, Jeanette Kontomitras, Roger Lloyd-Pack, George Kelly, Stephen Rea, Antonio Banderas, Nicole DuBois, Micha Bergese, Rory Edwards, Marcel Iures, Susan Lynch, Louise Salter, Matthew Sim, François Testory, Andrew Tiernan, Simon Tyrrell, George Antoni, Sara Stockbridge, Laure Marsac, Katia Caballero, Louis Lewis-Smith, Domiziana Giordano, Reese Foster, Ben Gardiner, Doron Jacobs, Danny Kamin, Gustavo I. Ortiz, John Risso, Greta Valenti, Robert 'Bobby Z' Zajonc
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“We reached the Mediterranean. I wanted those waters to be blue, but they were black, nighttime waters, and how I suffered then, straining to recall the color that in my youth I had taken for granted.”
“Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves.”
“- Louis: What if all I have is my suffering, my regret?
- Armand: Don't you want to lose it?
- Louis: Why? So you can have that too? The heart that mourns her, her that you burnt to a cinder.
- Armand: Louis, I swear that I...
- Louis: Ah, but I know you did. I know. You, who regrets nothing, you, who feels nothing. If that's all I have left to...” (continue)(continue reading)“You are a vampire who never knew what life was until it ran out in a big gush over your lips.”
“Lestat killed two, sometimes three a night. A fresh young girl, that was his favorite for the first of the evening. For seconds, he preferred a gilded beautiful youth. But the snob in him loved to hunt in society, and the blood of the aristocrat thrilled him best of all.”
“Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt.”
“Do you know what it means to be loved by Death? To become our bride?”
“- Lestat: It's your coffin, my love. Enjoy it. Most of us never get to know what it feels like.
- Louis: Why do you do this?
- Lestat: I like to do it. I enjoy it. Take your aesthete's taste to purer things, kill them swiftly, if you will, but do it. For do not doubt: you are a killer, Louis.”“- Lestat: Do you still want death or is this enough?
- Louis: Enough.”“- Malloy: What about crucifixes?
- Louis: Crucifixes?
- Malloy: Yes, can you look at them?
- Louis: Actually I am quite fond of looking at crucifixes.
- Malloy: What about the old stake through the heart?
- Louis: Nonsense.
- Malloy: Coffins? What about coffins?
- Louis: Coffins. Coffins, I'm afraid, are a necessity.”“The statue seemed to move, but didn't. The world had changed, yet stayed the same. I was a newborn vampire weeping at the beauty of the night.”
“- Lestat: No one could resist me, not even you, Louis.
- Louis: I tried.
- Lestat: And the more you tried, the more I wanted you.”“- Lestat: Lord, what I wouldn't give for a drop of good old-fashioned Creole blood.
- Louis: Yankees are not to your taste?
- Lestat: Their democratic flavor doesn't suit my palate, Louis.”“What died in that room was not that woman. What has died is the last breath in me that was human.”
“- Louis: Where are we?
- Lestat: Where do you think, my idiot friend? We're in a nice, filthy cemetery. Does this make you happy? Is this fitting, proper enough?
- Louis: We belong in hell.
- Lestat: And what if there is no hell, or they don't want us there? Ever think of that?
- Louis: But there was a hell, and no matter where we moved to, I...” (continue)(continue reading)“That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can't recall any sunrise before it. I watched the whole magnificence of the dawn for the last time as if it were the first. And then I said farewell to sunlight, and set out to become what I became.”
“The world changes, we do not, there lies the irony that finally kills us.”
“I am afraid, madam, my days are sacrosanct.”
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