Oliver Jackson-Cohen Quotes

We read the [Dracula] scripts, but Jess [De Gouw] and I are completely taken out of the hunts and anything with Van Helsing. We're just living our lives, as our characters.

I think it's very rare, as an actor, that you get to a script, or an idea of a script, and you go, "Oh, I just have to do that!" It fell into place very quickly.

Everyone wants to see someone shoot someone in the head.

Vampires have been romanticized, and this is bringing it right back to being vampiric. I think there's something sexy and raw about that.

On network, you have limitations for how raunchy it can get and how violent it can get.

I'm perfectly honest, I've never seen Twilight, I've never seen The Vampire Diaries, and I've never seen True Blood, or anything like that.

As the show [Dracula] goes on,Jonathan Harker gets darker and darker, and further into that side of it all. All of the worlds end up colliding and meshing together.

You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.

I rarely watch TV, and in the past two years, I've done three TV shows. It's quite interesting.

There are so many sitcoms. So, when you get to be a part of something that feels exciting to you, you just want to be a part of it.

I went to a French school, so we didn't study Bram Stoker there. I just thought it was a genius thing.

When I read the script, I said to one of the producers, "I know you probably want Jonathan Harker really fluffy, but I'm not gonna do that. It needs to be a mask. There needs to be a duel between Harker and Dracula."

I haven't ever seen a period drama that has a fantasy element to it, that's set in London, that's as lavish as it is, and that's made for American TV.