Interview with the Vampire (TV Series)

In Throes of Increasing Wonder... (2022)

Eric Bogosian: Daniel Molloy

Quotes 

• Daniel Molloy : It's not an interview; it's a... it's a fever dream told to an idiot.

• Daniel Molloy : I've been fired from three papers, hired back at two of them, third got gobbled up by Knight Ridder. So to be clear here, I'm a goddamn reservoir of dos and don'ts.

• Louis de Pointe du Lac : You've grown old, Daniel.

  Daniel Molloy : Yeah, well, mortality beats a heavy drum.

• Louis de Pointe du Lac : You've had some health concerns of late.

  Daniel Molloy : Whole planet's having a moment, I'd say.

• Daniel Molloy : Here's another question: That's the sun out there; where's your coffin?

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : You're standing in it.

• Louis de Pointe du Lac : I couldn't believe it. Staring me down as his hands went wandering the seams of Miss Lily's dress. I wanted to take the end of my cane and slit his throat with it.

  Daniel Molloy : Why didn't you?

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : I couldn't move. My body was seized with weakness. His gaze tied a string around my lungs, and I found myself immobilized.

• Daniel Molloy : You started hanging out.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : He was in love with my city and wanted to know everything he could about it.

  Daniel Molloy : So you played docent to the gentleman vampire?

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : He had not revealed his vampire nature yet.

  Daniel Molloy : I'm assuming you only met at night.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : It's New Orleans. Days are for sleeping off the previous evening's damage.

  Daniel Molloy : Perfect cover for a vampire.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Racing ahead again, Mr. Molloy. Let the tale seduce you. Just as I was seduced.

• Louis de Pointe du Lac : When you were using drugs, Mr. Molloy, do you remember the best you ever had?

  Daniel Molloy : Berkely, 1978, some Mexican black tar that Carly and Pedro were slinging.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : So imagine that flowing inside your veins again. Now, multiply it by miles to the rings of Saturn and back... He had taken what he called 'un petit coup,' the little drink. Not enough to kill me, but just enough to keep him fit. It takes an enormous amount of restraint for us, the little drink. For a human, experiencing it for the first time, it was... unsettling. And not for the physical toll it took on my body, which was significant, but for the feelings of intimacy it awoke within me. I had never allowed myself to feel emotionally close to anyone, much less a man. I had no room for feelings like these in my life. You could be a lot of things in New Orleans, but an openly gay Negro man was not one of 'em.

• Louis de Pointe du Lac : It bears repeating, I did not consider myself a homosexual man at the time. I mean, I had had experiences. Guilt, shame, floating-on-a-sea-of-vodka type encounters. Obviously, I've come to embrace my sexuality. Course, you know that. We met at a gay bar, didn't we, Daniel?

  Daniel Molloy : It was a good place to score. I did what I had to.

• Louis de Pointe du Lac : I've seen death over and over and over and over again. It's boring.

  Daniel Molloy : That'll make a great blurb.