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

Alexandra Cassavetes

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" I sort of forgot about 'Z Channel' after it went off the air in 1989, but once Jason Resnick of Focus Features made the suggestion, I became obsessed all over again. I still am. I'll probably be this way until I'm 80, babbling about 'Z Channel.' "

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" 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. "

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" I feel too strongly about rearranging reality in a movie. It gives me peace. "

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

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" 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.' "

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