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The vampire is the new James Dean.
Write something good that the people like.
Happiness is not necessarily a drama magnet.
I don't pray. I'm not a deeply religious person.
Humanity has both its beautiful and its ugly sides.
I'm not a morning person, and yet production is a morning person's game.
'The Reckoning' is one of my proudest hours. I love that episode so much.
'The Vampire Diaries' is a serialized drama. It deserved its final chapter.
I suffer mightily at the 7 A.M. calls. I'm happy as a clam on the 7 P.M. calls.
Once a vampire drinks another vampires blood they are connected to them forever
I feel like Caroline Forbes is such a crucial element... on 'The Vampire Diaries.'
The people I worked for before I was doing 'Vampire Diaries' were very generous to me.
I can stay up until the sun's up, no problem, but I do not like getting up in the morning.
We all have our own party fantasy that we've either lived or wanted to live in New Orleans.
The supernatural world, the sci-fi world - they give you scenarios that can truly be life or death.
A long-running show leaves behind a legacy of storytellers and their relationship with the audience.
The problem with ratings is that you can give yourself a million reasons why they are what they are.
There are a lot of things you do in a supernatural universe that can toe the line and cross the line.
I don't like villains who are just villains. People who are just there to be bad - ugh - so annoying.
Kevin Williamson and I wrote a show about loss and grief that just so happened to have vampires in it.
I watched a lot of soap operas, when I was growing up, and a lot of those great serialized soap dramas.
Growing up, I remember watching 'Little House on the Prairie' and 'L.A. Law' and being so obsessed with it.
I think, make it as beautiful as you can, and then rip it away. That's my sadistic thought as a storyteller.
As you live your life and accumulate friends, both IRL and on social media, ask yourself, are you a bully too?
'Originals' is a show that is not about struggling as a vampire but reveling in it. It's about embracing vampirism.
If people love 'TVD' in 20 years the way they still love 'Buffy' today - on its 20th anniversary - I will be happy.
'Scream' was the first thing he'd ever written that had gotten made, and I'd been in Hollywood for less than two years.
TV is really, really, really hard work. You sacrifice a lot of your personal life, a lot of your sanity, just to do one show.
In a non-supernatural universe, there's just character, and it's humanity and human beings and how they relate to each other.
I do all these panels where people are always talking about the lack of female directors, and I have a lot of opinions on that.
I didn't get paid to write professionally until my first episode of 'Kyle XY,' which was the fourth episode of the first season.
When you have to spread heroism across too many players, you don't get to really dig deep into each of them as much as you'd want to.
God bless Hollywood and all that it stands for, but, you know, people tend to peak in their 40s, and then it's all downhill from there.
There is no definitive end to anybody's story when you're dealing with the fluidity of chemistry, because when it gets stale, you want out.
You can love and hate your family with equal measure, but the power of the bond you have to have with them, you can't really ever walk away.
To me, TV relationships work at their best when there is a deep longing and feelings and interest and sexual attraction that is unrequitable.
In junior high, when we got our first VCR, I used to tape four soaps a day. I was a diehard 'General Hospital' fan from when I was nine to 25.
There's something about two people coming together in the rain that is the ultimate expression of love in the minds of most audiences, I guess.
I work very hard so that I can be present all the time for what I do and then carve out little pockets of time as I desire for my personal life.
TV writing - for me, at least - is half original voice and half an embodiment and a representation of the spirit of the actors you're writing for.
I wanted to work in Hollywood. I was captivated by it. I read 'Premiere Magazine' and 'Movieline Magazine' and 'Us' before it was a weekly magazine.
The whole reason I like these virus movies is because I read 'The Stand' when I was in junior high and thought it was the greatest book I'd ever read.
For me, it is important to not just tell the audience how the story ended today, but to give a glimpse into how other people's stories might go on, in the future.
I had a moment where I wrote a movie script, and it was my first movie job, and I was very excited to do it, and my only goal was really not to get fired off of it.
I remember just weeping my way through the 'Friday Night Lights' finale with my best friend and just being so happy all the way through because it was so beautiful.
I've always loved the genre of virus movies or Armageddon movies - anything that involves being trapped with the cute boy in detention when the zombies are attacking.
There's a reason a happy ending is called an ending. The trick of a television storyteller is to find all the rivers and mountains and valleys on the way to that ending.
I love real women that don't have to be saints, who can be selfish and act out against their parents or like the wrong guy, because that's life. That's my life, at least.
When you're in a functional friendship or a functional relationship, and you feel like you've got something to share, you can share it with a friend, a lover or whatever.
I call it 'The Breakfast Club' philosophy. There's something about being trapped in a dire situation with a group of people that you would never normally be trapped with.