103 Quotes by Julie Plec

I think Joss Whedon is a genius.

There's something about a supernatural universe that you would think would actually make it easier to create tension and build conflict and have big scares and big ideas and big sequences. And that's true in a lot of ways. You can pick the best idea out of a hat.

I wanted to work in Hollywood. I was captivated by it. I read 'Premiere Magazine' and 'Movieline Magazine' and 'Us' before it was a weekly magazine.

In a non-supernatural universe, there's just character, and it's humanity and human beings and how they relate to each other.

I read 'Tiger Beat' and 'Bop' from the time I was 9, 10, 11 years old. I loved movies. I saw 'E.T.' seven times. I used to yell at people who called me when 'L.A. Law' was on because they should know better. So I just have been so in love with the business of Hollywood since I can remember.

Humanity has both its beautiful and its ugly sides.

I learned more about who I am and how to be a great worker - and a great artistic worker - from doing student theater. I was a stage manager. I was an assistant stage manager. I was on the running crew. I did probably 25 shows at Northwestern - all musicals, of course.

'Originals' is a show that is not about struggling as a vampire but reveling in it. It's about embracing vampirism.

'Scream' was the first thing he'd ever written that had gotten made, and I'd been in Hollywood for less than two years.