Michael Arden

I think they represent the thing that we think we want.

What do you mean?

Tell me more.

I think they represent the shiny life, the life without responsibility, the staying young forever, the reclaiming one's youth when we feel like it might have been taken from us or is being taken from us because of the responsibilities that are being shoved upon us by our parents.

And they represent that all these things come with a heavy cost and is it worth it?

Do you want this enough to take life from someone?

It's such an interesting concept.

My wife, Roxanne, and I were talking about, we went together to see the play, and we were talking about how often vampires appear in so many cultures.

Yeah, yeah.

And how they're often extremely sexy, Interview with a Vampire and the Twilight series and now The Lost Boys.

What do you think it is about vampires that is so compelling to people?

I think...

The idea of vampires forces us to contemplate the type of life we would live without the threat of death.

And does that reveal our true nature?

And if so, what is our true nature?

Or are we just living in a reactionary reality to the reality of death?

I think that might be why.

It actually like digs to the core of who we are and want to be.

Just the existence of vampires.

OK, if you were a vampire and you didn't have to worry about going to heaven or hell, right, you were just going to live forever.