Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

So you want me to tell

you the story of my life.

Like I said, that's what I do.

I interview people.

I'm a collector of lives.

FM radio, KFRC.

You'll need a lot of tape for my story.

No problem. I got a bag full of tape.

You followed me here, didn't you?

Yeah, I suppose I did.

You seemed very interesting.

This is where you live?

No.

It's just a room.

What do you say we get started?

What do you do?

I'm a vampire.

I haven't heard that before.

You mean this literally, I take it?

Absolutely.

I was waiting for you in that alley.

Watching you watching me.

And then you began to speak.

What a lucky break for me.

Perhaps lucky for both of us.

You said you were...

...waiting for me.

What were you going to do?

Kill me, drink my blood?

Yes.

But you needn't be concerned now.

You really believe this, don't you,

that you're a vampire?

We can't begin this way.

Let me turn on the light.

- I thought vampires didn't like light.

- We love it.

I only wanted to prepare you.

Christ!

Don't be frightened.

I want this opportunity.

How the hell did you do that?

The same as you do.

A series of simple gestures.

Only I moved too fast for you to see.

I'm flesh and blood...

...but not human.

I haven't been human for 200 years.

Please...

How can I put you at ease?

Shall we begin like '"David Copperfield'"?

'"I am born...

'"...I grew up. '"

Or shall we begin when I was

born to darkness, as I call it.

That's where we should start,

don't you think?

You're not lying, are you?

Why should I lie?

I was 24.

Younger than you are now.

But times were different then.

I was a man at that age.

The master of a large plantation,

just south of New Orleans.

I had lost my wife in childbirth.

She and the infant had been

buried less than half a year.

I would've been happy to join them.

I couldn't bear the pain of their loss.

I longed to be released from it.

I wanted to lose it all:

my wealth...

...my estate...

...my sanity.

How many aces are in a deck?

Are you calling me a cheat?

No, I'm calling you a piece of stinking offal!

You lack the courage of your convictions.

Do it!

Most of all, I longed for death.

I know that now.

I invited it.

A release from the pain of living.

My invitation was open to anyone.

To the whore at my side.

To the pimp that followed.

But it was a vampire that accepted.

Give me your money or you die!

Do you still want death?

Or have you tasted it enough?

Enough.

He left me there, on the banks

of the Mississippi...

...somewhere between life and death.

Who are you?

What're you doing in my house?

I've come to answer your prayers.

Life has no meaning anymore... does it?

The wine has no taste.

The food sickens you.

There seems no reason for any of it...

does there?

What if I could give it back to you?

Pluck out the pain...

...and give you another life?

One you could never imagine.

And it would be... for all time.

And sickness...

...and death...

...could never touch you again.

Don't be afraid.

I'm going to give you the choice...

...l...

...never had.

That morning, I was not yet a vampire...

...and I saw my last sunrise.

I remember it completely...

...and yet I can't recall

any sunrise before it.

I watched the whole magnificence

of the dawn for the last time...

...as if it were the first.

And then I said farewell to sunlight...

...and set out to become...

...what I became.

Have you said your good-byes to the light?

I've drained you...

...to the point of death.

If I leave you here...

...you'll die.

Or...

...you can be young always, my friend...

...as we are now.

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