Daniel Molloy quotes from Interview with the Vampire

I'm a vampire. [Both laugh]

Young Daniel Molloy

I want to interview you.

Sounds fun.

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She had stowed us away in ships, trains and wagons. She had asked the desperate farmers and rationed soldiers to teach her their languages before she killed them. And when she had cobbled together enough words and grammar, she stopped asking. Claudia was a thing of little indecision, a manic tour guide. And any castle with ties to Vlad Tepes or Vlad Dracul, however slight, had to be explored. And I endured it all for Claudia, whose rage toward me and my refusal to burn Lestat had dulled into a bitter silence. [Sits besides Claudia passively silent and staring at fire] This war. It's affecting the blood. Been drinking misery, hopelessness. It's in the blood, we're taking it in. Taking it on. [Grunts] I'm thinking that's why we can't get warm, warm up. You think that's it? [Imitates Claudia's voice] "Louis did you say something?" Thank you for asking. I did say something, Claudia. I said I'm cold. I'm sleeping in a hole every night. I'm worn to a nub. How about you? "Well, brother Lou, I'm a little low myself. But, uh..."

CClaudia

Air raid. [Louis and Claudia run out of building amidst bombings]

[Voice of thought] It wasn't the murdering Hun or beasts of Ivan, or the fire raining down from the RAF that chased the vampire away. The vampire hadn't been here for centuries. The few scraps of forensic proof we found made the case plain, but Claudia was unassailable. Like... like some deranged geologist waving a woolly mammoth tusk saying, "Let's knock on the neighbor's door, there must be one inside." It's dead. Maybe it's time we go home.

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"He asked me if we can go home. Home? Can there be a more offensive question? Run back to New Orleans. Pry up his bones, why don't you? Louis de Pointe du Lac. Dead weight." I want to thank you, for the memories you helped restore the other night. I understand these diaries much better now.

Daniel Molloy

And I want to thank you, Louis, for yesterday's eight hours on how to avoid the sun and torpedoes while cruising the Mediterranean war theater. And tonight's two hours and counting on chasing old world vamps who never materialize. You ever read "Moby Dіck", Real Rashid?

RRReal Rashid

I'm here to serve.

Daniel Molloy

Ah. Yeah, sure. I'm sorry, this is... this is so weird. Where did they send you when Shah Rukh Khan over here was playing you? Is there a panic room behind the stolen Rembrandt?

My love ran a theater company for 150 years, Daniel.

Daniel Molloy

Your love was in a box pondering a premediated neck wound, according to Claudia. She wrote it, let's choose to believe it.

AArmand

Unworthy in San Francisco, unworthy in Dubai. Disregard.

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[Sets down bowl] Soup for cigarettes. Bad trade for you. But God will forget when you die. God "not" forget.

Americans? I haven't heard a word of English in half a year. Say something, anything.

Uh, something, anything.

Oh! Hello.

Hello.

What am I talk?

Oh, you, darling, are talk broken English by an Englishman too enamored with his student to do the job properly.

Mm-hm. This Robert.

Uh, Louis.

She's a quick studier actually and very resourceful and I'm desperately in love with her. I hear you have vodka.

This Morgan.

Morgan Ward, correspondent Daily Herald. They've forgotten I'm here. And I've forgotten your name already.

It's, uh, Louis.

Louis! Louis, wonderful strange. Welcome to, no question, hell on Earth! And you? What's your name, sweetheart?

Why are they shooting up graves outside? This is my daughter, Mary.

Oh. [Holds up cigarette] Uh, Andrei. Maybe you can take Mary here to meet the other children.

CClaudia

I'm fine, sir, thank you.

Go ahead, Mary. Go and meet the other children. I bet they know everything about this place. [Claudia takes the hint and leaves then cut to scene of interview] Wait, that's wrong. She didn't say that in front of Claudia.

Daniel Molloy

Say what? Who?

The wolves, the Germans, something worse. Emilia, she would not have said that in front of Claudia. [Flashback] She thought Claudia was a child. Claudia left. And then she said it. [Flashback of Emilia sitting at table after Claudia leaves] Yes. Yes! That's how it went. We should get every detail right.

Daniel Molloy

In total agreement. Perhaps this would be a time to take a break, Louis. You know, Real Rashid, I'm pretty good at my job, a bright young reporter with a point of view. Interviewed a fallen Catholic archbishop, four Enron vice presidents, and if they've got something to hide they always start with some kind of disguise. Not literally, not some dumb Halloween costume, gloves, contact lenses. They tell jokes, they're charming. And then at some crisis point, when I get close, it drops away and I see a flash of the truth.

Armand didn't want me to do the interview, Daniel.

AArmand

Still don't.

Daniel Molloy

But he wanted to be close to it, right, Real Rashid? I mean, hey, whatever it is they're trying to hide, I'm probably not going to crack it, which is, you know, who cares? Happens all the time. But I wanna ask you, as a member of the inferior species, why say, "Hey, vampires are real. Here's almost all the story"? Thank you, Rashid. That's why I'm coming after you, Real Rashid. You I can fսcking break! If you'll excuse me.

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Daniel Molloy

Okay. Um... Session ten, the vampire Louis and the vampire Armand. You went west.

Claudia was entirely broken. She had left a part of herself in Romania. I knew I had to steer her far away from it. I chose the city that called to us on the radio. To the mother of New Orleans. Members of my coven sensed... Uh, uh, uh. We'll get to you. The war had turned off the lights, stripped its streets of their beauty, sent its avant-garde into exile. But now, the whole world was ready to return, to remake their lives. Pilgrims on their hopeful way. [Flashback of riding an army truck with Claudia sitting across from him] I wanna say something to you. I don't need to hear anything back, I just need you to hear me. Hard words and soft words. The hard. Our life is shit. It's been shit. It is shit. It's gonna be shit again. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. No one's watching, no one cares. A shit life beats no life. But where we're going now we can't be running away again. Doesn't mean we forget what we saw. What she did in front of us. If I see you going that way, I'm going pull you back. I don't need that from you. As long as you walk the Earth, I'll never taste the fire, you understand me? We're going to find others like us. And if it ain't here, cos life is shit, or I fսck it up again, or you fսck it up, we'll go to the next place. We can't be the only good ones out there. Soft words. If you were the last vampire on Earth it would be enough. [Repeatedly] You and me. Me and you. [A slit throat Lestat appears besides Claudia then disappears]