Interview with the Vampire (TV Series)

Is My Very Nature That of a Devil (2022)

Eric Bogosian: Daniel Molloy

Quotes 

• [upon being confronted about the discrepancies in his recollection of his life with Lestat] 

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : The version we speak of now is the more nuanced portrait.

  Daniel Molloy : Hmm. Or the more rehearsed.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Perhaps I was mistaken about the 'Wolverine Blues.'

  Daniel Molloy : Fuck the 'Wolverine Blues.' Ken Burns can choke on the footnotes. It's the abused-abuser psychological relationship I'm talking about.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : I do not consider myself abused.

  Daniel Molloy : I mean, usually when you're a little too close to it, the abused still loves the abuser, but you flipped it completely on its head.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : I'm not a victim.

  Daniel Molloy : Fifty years later, you talk like he was your soulmate. Like you were locked in some fucked up gothic romance. Why?

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : [reading from Daniel's memoir]  'I am in my Buick, staring in the rearview mirror at my daughter in the car seat, an hour after I gave Derek, a guy I don't know, the last 30 bucks I had. My editor reminds me it's seven years before car seats are mandatory. My ex-wife reminds me I never owned a Buick. This is the odyssey of recollection.'

  [closes book] 

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : The tapes are an admitted performance. This is the premise of our interview. Half a century later, allow me my odyssey.

  [Daniel throws away the tapes of their first interview] 

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Now who's performing?

• Louis de Pointe du Lac : Many streets in New Orleans weren't paved at the time. The mud on his boots could've come from anywhere.

  Daniel Molloy : Was it raining that night?

  [Louis recalls his conversation with Jonah without rain] 

  Daniel Molloy : Did it rain?

  [Louis recalls his conversation with Jonah again, this time with rain] 

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : I don't remember now. It could've been dry in the bayou and wet in the Quarter. It's Louisiana.

  Daniel Molloy : The odyssey of recollection.

• Daniel Molloy : You were the prince of your district. Lestat chased an American icon out of town because he loved you. 1917 doesn't sound like it was such a bad year.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Rigged to burn, Daniel.