Catherine Hardwicke
Catherine Hardwicke

I had always liked, well, who didn't love Lestat and fall in love with 'Interview with the Vampire,' and 'Nosferatu,' and Coppola's 'Dracula' with the awesome costumes? So I loved all that.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Lestat: Listen, Louis. There's life in these old hands still. Not quite Furioso. Moderato? Cantabile, perhaps.
Claudia: How can it be?
Lestat: Ask the alligator. His blood helped. Then on a diet of the blood of snakes, toads, and all the putrid life of the Mississippi, slowly, Lestat became something like himself again. Claudia...

You've been a very, very, naughty little girl.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Armand: You are beautiful, my friend. Lestat must have wept when he made you.
Louis: Lestat? You knew Lestat?
Armand: Knew him well enough not to mourn his passing

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Louis: Whatever happened to Lestat I do not know. I go on, night after night. I feed on those who cross my path. But all my passion went with her golden hair. I'm a spirit of preternatural flesh. Detached. Unchangeable. Empty.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Louis: 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.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Lestat: Louie... I'm so glad you're here. I've dreamed... of this moment. She never should've been... one of us.
Louis: It's all past, isn't it?
Lestat: Yes. Past.
[He slowly turns around in his chair to face Louis, now a mere shadow of his former self]
Lestat: Still beautiful, Louie. You always were

the strong one.
Louis: [Lestat jumps back in fear as Louis approaches him] Don't be frightened. I mean you no harm.
Lestat: You've come home to me then?
[Louis gently shakes his head]
Lestat: You remember how I was? The vampire that I was?
Louis: Yes, I remember.
Lestat:

[sighs] No one could refuse me. Not even you, Louie.
Louis: I tried.
Lestat: [Gently laughing] Yes, you tried. And the more you tried...
[laughing]
Lestat: ... the more I wanted you.
[as a helicopter hovers over with Lestat frightened]
Lestat: Oh, I can't. Stop it, Louie! I hate such

lights. And that noise! They make the night brighter than the day!
Louis: [Kneeling down in front of Lestat] Lestat... It's false light. It can't harm you.
Lestat: [Whispered] If you stay with me, I could venture out again... become the old Lestat.
Louis: I must leave now.
[He leaves Lestat]