Top 14 Alexandra Cassavetes Quotes

I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love that people fall into naturally.

The vampire movies I embraced as a kid used vampirism as a metaphor that expressed deep sadness and a lot of human qualities.

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. No one would want to walk a step in his shoes. Believe me – I wouldn’t.

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.’

I think the reason vampire movies have been so popular over time is that they share so many parallels with human beings.

People are fascinated with eternal life and physical power – the idea of having no vulnerability. We all feel small and powerless in the world at times, so the temptation to be a vampire is compelling.

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 permanence, integrity, and denial. These qualities really are the same in vampire characters as in humans. I think they’re universal themes.

Love is a component of many different things – the baggage you bring, the moment, what you need in your life, seeing someone as a portal for understanding everything, and all the intensity that brings. It’s not something to count on and act like it’s a stable thing.

My taste in films doesn’t lead financers to think they are going to make a zillion dollars.

I think vampires would want to find a way to stay attached to the living, the way human beings do, and that is through love, interrelations and meaning.

I just want to make something that is true to itself and that interests me; otherwise, how can I have the audacity to think it’s going to interest anybody else?

I didn’t plan to be a director until I was 35. For years I wanted to do anything but!

I’ve noticed that when people make vampire movies, they’re always determining which of the rules they’re going to stick to and which they’ll abandon.

I’m not cynical, but I don’t really want to have a boyfriend or husband again.