Santiago quotes from Interview with the Vampire

Santiago

[To Armand] Discipline Claudia for bumping into the scenery, but let Louis run wild.

Louis

[To Claudia at dinner party] So this couple, the Perriers, they got this salon thing they call R-26. Artist types, some showing work, some just there to be there. Painters, poets...

Photographers?

Louis

Yeah, me, okay, I showed a little work, got some love back.

Santiago

I don't know what he sees in him. He's not that attractive. ]

And a waterfall of pretension bursting forth from his mouthal cavity. Read my mind, grab my nethers. Already doing it.

Sam was late with the bed bellows. Head's in a hat. Working on a new play. It won't happen again, Maitre.

It happened four times!

It won't happen again, Maitre. Eglee?

Catatonic since Santiago has taken up with Celeste again.

And Gustave? Les Toilettes? Back at the lair, hung over from last night, when he split from the pack and over-served himself in the Latin Quarter.

Ran down the street screaming, "I am a vampire! I am a vampire!"

Wheels are coming off this week, Maitre. It's not just Paris giving birth to more genius.

Louis

She's giving birth...

...to modernity itself?

Louis

[To Claudia] Yes! Sculptors and authors, and photographers and saxophone players. Intermingling, innovating.

[In unison] Collapsing two art forms into one. Coming up with new ones. Meanwhile, everyone's fawning over Picasso, but out there on the Left Bank in shabby hotel rooms and cold water walk-ups, a new generation's ripping apart the old modes. Bursting into new ones.

Louis

Suppose I can come off haughty.

[In unison] Everyone's fawning over Picasso, but not me, not Louis du Lac. I'm out in the streets on the barricades with the avant-garde.

Louis

Funny.

Santiago

See, now that I've wriggled inside your voice, pulled it on like a costume, you don't sound all that Chicago to me.

Outside Chicago. We roamed all around.

Santiago

It's that emphasis on the second syllable, borrowed from the French.

Louis

So it's mimicry that you're good at. Like a parrot?

Santiago

Like a gent with upright downstairs.

Louis

Or an organ monkey?

Santiago

Cajun drawl. I want to test a theory. Say New Orleans!

Louis

Or a buffoon! [Santiago hisses with Louis then leaping from seat, popping up besides Santiago pulling his tongue] Anything else you want to say, buffoon?! I couldn't hear you from the other side of the table! But you got my attention now!

Enough! [All guests heads slam on table and whole restaurant goes still]

Louis

Take your time. Come on! What?! Spit it out! A-huh.

I said enough!

Louis

Good boy.

If you two want to act like fledglings do it in darkness! [Telepathically] Louis, come back!

Are you thinking of coming back to Paris? Trash piles and men who smell like cheese? Non, merci. No. We're going to wander.

Louis

Wander?

Mm-hm. [Louis chuckles]

Louis

Wander? This one? She of the straight line to the next X on the map?

This is the X, Louis. Alright. Okay, well... to finding the X.

Santé! Santé! How do you like my coffin? I wake up at night and the Phams aren't trading insults, Estelle isn't smearing makeup all over herself or humming off-key. [Claudia sings off-key] No one is forcing me to listen to their gossips or solve their petty crises. It's bliss.

Lestat

Still, we didn't make it easy for you. I'm sorry for that. You alright there? I cannot read your mind. The architects of our, uh... I made you, that's just the way it is. Yes, but I feel you, Louis. I feel you too, Madeleine. I told Claudia I can feel you love her... and we should see him once more. I'm glad you did. I'm glad we did this. I can feel you too. Through him. Yes, he loves you. Okay. Okay, well, let's get the hell out of my soul! He gets enough affection. I don't need his head getting too big to get out the door. Taking a stretch. Order me another, love. There he goes. Mm-hm, there he goes! Will he get through the door with that big head? [Madeleine laughs] Why don't you want him to know how much you love him?

Louis

That's a little personal. He knows.

Madeleine

Uh-huh.

Louis

He knows. They gave him a choice. He chose.

Santiago

[Hosting cabaret performance] Ladies and gentlemen! Madames et messieurs! Offal and offalesses! And all those who flourish outside the divide, welcome. For 150 years, we here at the Theatre Des Vampires have shown you "you". [Audience laughs] Your obscene predilections, your savage desires. But today, we're shunting human affairs aside. So if you want to kill your lover or fսck your mother, it'll have to wait. [Audience laughs] Because today... we're turning our lurid spotlight on ourselves! I stand before you in broad daylight at this first ever matinee at the Theatre Des Vampires to perform for your salacious gratification...

Yes!

Santiago

...us! Are you ready, you filthy animals?

[Shouts] Yes! Yes? [Audience cheers and applauds]

Santiago

Yes? [Audience cheers] The jury may be seated!