Armand quotes from Interview with the Vampire

You must understand, in a community as small as ours, such crossings of immortal paths is expected, perhaps more common than you would think.

"Maître" is a coven endearment. Armand for you.

Have I atoned for my part of... Paris? Have I crawled an inch forward? Or am I a reminder of the worst of it?

If you wanted escape from this prison of empathy I've locked you away in, all you had to do was ask, Louis.

You left me for death. Will I be on suicide watch for the next 1,000 years?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

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..."

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

Louis de Pointe du Lac

[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.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

"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?

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?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

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.

Unworthy in San Francisco, unworthy in Dubai. Disregard.

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

Morgan

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

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Uh, something, anything.

Morgan

Oh! Hello.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Hello.

What am I talk?

Morgan

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

Mm-hm. This Robert.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Uh, Louis.

Morgan

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

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

Louis de Pointe du Lac

It's, uh, Louis.

Morgan

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

Louis de Pointe du Lac

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

Morgan

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

I'm fine, sir, thank you.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

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?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

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.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

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

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.

Louis

We never brought our kills home. We used the sewers for that.

Waterways of which they had no expertise. The flow controls, the pumping stations. We were constantly cleaning up for them.

Daniel

You kill nightly.

And sometimes you've watched that kill on the local news. You've never been easier to distract. You're at the height of willful ignorance. We exploit it. This is, was, Lestat's prophetic vision.

Daniel

You let it happen.

Yes.

Daniel

You led him there so he could destroy it.

His words had been my thoughts for half a century. If it had come from me, they wouldn't have believed it.

Daniel

The question was how do vampires hide from Google, not how did Lestat break his heart.

But because you're a good listener, you got answers to both.

Louis

He abandoned Nicky. He abandoned Armand. He abandoned the coven. Lestat is, was, and will always be for Lestat.

Daniel

Never say I love you to a raging narcissist.

And I locked away those words for another 150 years.

Louis

I was with Bruce for 30 years.

Bruce. How long are we going to play games, Louis?

Louis

You want to come upstairs?

Are you inviting me in?

Louis

Depends. Are you gonna kill me?

I'm evil, evil as any vampire who ever lived. I've killed over and over and I will do it again. Why does that make you as evil as any vampire? Aren't there gradations to evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf one falls into with the first sin?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

I mean, kinda. It's not as logical as you're saying, but it's dark and it's empty, and I can't see the bottom of it.

But if evil is without gradation and it does exist, this state of evil then, only one sin is needed. That's your argument.

[Politely coughs] Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract what is concrete.

Jean-Paul.

Armand.

This is my friend, Louis.

Bonjour. Now, will you two kindly shut up, so I can hear the music, hmm?

Your argument assumes God exists.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

I don't know that God exists. From what I saw in the war, he doesn't.

Then surely, there are degrees and variations to goodness? The goodness of the child which is innocence. The goodness of the nun who lives a life of self-deprivation and service. The goodness of the saints, the goodness of the midwives. And how is this evil achieved? How does one fall from grace?