



Interview with the Vampire (1994) dir. Neil Jordan
“What I mean is, the moment I saw him, saw his extraordinary aura and knew him to be no creature I’d ever known, I was reduced to nothing. (…) All my conceptions, even my guilt and wish to die, seemed utterly unimportant. I completely forgot myself!” he said, now silently touching his breast with his fist. “I forgot myself totally.”
“Lestat, in fact, had aroused in me feelings which I hadn’t wished to confide in anyone, feelings I’d wished to forget, despite Claudia’s death. Hatred had not been one of them.”
They had forgotten the first lesson, that we are to be powerful, beautiful, and without regret. And you can teach me this? Yes. To be without regret? Yes. Then what a pair we could make, but what if it’s a lesson I don’t care to learn? What do you mean? What if all I have is my suffering, my regret? Don’t you want to lose it? Why? So you can have that too? The heart that mourns her, her that you burnt to a cinder. Louis, I swear that I… Ah, but I know you did. I know.Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)