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Steve: You have to have a job and a front -
Karl: Exactly. How does he get his money? He's a writer… He's writing these books. He pays these girls [in the first scene] to get whatever he wants… Everything is done by correspondence… You have to think, what's it like to be a vampire nowadays? You have to have other people working for you. If you notice, the interviews with the older people, you saw somebody in the 30s who said, "OK, yeah, I gave blood for money because it was the Depression."
Jennifer: These people, did you cast them as actors, or were these people that you found?
Karl: I found these people. Another woman [interviewed] said, during World War II it was unpatriotic to sell blood. You gave it at blood donation centers. She knew it was unpatriotic but she had money… that's how they caught her. So when you dissect the information in the movie there's an air of correctness about it. It really could work. If you were a vampire and you used the formula that's in the movie, you'd get away with it. [Tom]'s very depressed about it.
Jennifer: There's one thing I wanted to clear up. The shots of the tombstone where it seems to have the guy's name [Thomas Lane] on it -
Karl: Didn't that look real? I bet you probably says, my god -
Jennifer: Looked like it said Tom Lane on it to me!
Karl: I'm glad you think it looked so good.
Jennifer: So you're not worried about getting sued by anybody? Is that another one of those sites where you had to sneak in…
Karl: No I went right up to it. Actually what happened was, my uncle passed away and he's in the next grave. When I was at his funeral, that many years ago, and I looked over I saw Tom Lane's tombstone. So many years later, when I was writing this screenplay, we needed a World War I soldier, and we needed a name. So we went back to see my uncle and I saw Tom Lane.
Jennifer: You're not worried about his grandkids -
Karl: First of all I thought of that, but the cemetery is in Newark; it's not in the greatest place in Newark. And I don't think they even know where his grave is at.
Jennifer: Or they haven't been there in a long time?
Karl: I'm sure they haven't.
Conrad: When Karl makes a few million dollars he'll pay!
[Some of the more recent slasher films are mentioned as moneymaking propositions that are easy to make but essentially interchangeable.]
Steve: This really goes back to Ed Wood. He's known as not a very good director -
Conrad: I agree with you.
Jennifer: But he had convictions!
Conrad: He had a heart!