That quote is a little out of context but since Mr. Farrell is the master of beautiful interjections, I feel like putting it on top. These are extracts of another fine Fright Night interview with Colin Farrell about the things he loves and would love to do and will be loved for. He talks about his undead incarnation Jerry being more Lestat than Louis, revisiting Alexander, being doubly lucky in his life, the amenities of eclecticism, directing a film one day, being part of another Martin McDonagh project, Seven Psychopaths, with the line-up of Christopher Walken, Mickey Rourke, Sam “Sammy” Rockwell (which freaks me out in the most positive way) and more. Read the whole thing. Mr. Farrell is never a fail in interviews.

Colin Farrell scares up revered role for ‘Fright Night’ remake

By W. Andrew Powell

August 18, 2011

That led right into the topic, following my own chain of thoughts, of how Farrell plays this killer creature that the other journalist referred to as “an eternal son-of-a-bitch.”

“[Jerry] certainly operates from a similar place,” Farrell said, “[as] serial killers–from what I’ve read and what I’ve seen… particularly Ted Bundy. There would be an ability to allow people to ill-advisedly feel a level of comfort and trust around them, and around him, but it’s really just a leap into the imagination,” he added, “You know, it really is.”

“I understand the concept of cruelty as a human being, having experienced it toward me, having been cruel in my life,” Farrell said. “I understand it on whatever level I understand it, so it’s just magnification of what you’ve already experienced imbued with whatever the capability of your imagination is at the end of the day.”

Laughing, Farrell added, “There wasn’t much method stuff to be done: ‘Farrell attacks innocent bystander in Universal Studios.’ [Making a noise like chomping on a neck] Caught in mid bite.”

“But it was fun,” the star said, “and you know, I have a relationship with vampires on film. From my life, from Fright Night, from Lost Boys, from Near Dark, from Nosferatu, from Coppola’s Dracula, Christopher Lee, Bella Lugosi; so many. Interview with the Vampire, Let the Right One In, it goes on and on and on.”

“And you know I was asked ‘did you draw on any of them’ and I thought ‘absolutely not’ but of course you draw from what you know, regardless of how deep what you know is buried. Maybe you draw more from things you don’t even understand you’re drawing from that are actually there than you’d like to believe.”

“With that in mind, Jerry was an accumulation of all that I had seen,” Farrell said, “but if I was to characterize him as being more one than the other, he is definitely more Lestat than Brad Pitt’s Louie. And I love the romantic vampire. I really am a big softie.”

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