The Lost Boys is a vampire movie, with Keifer Sutherland and various other people as these vampires metaphorical... whatever they are. But I've always liked horror movies. I love vampire movies and, particularly, I love werewolf movies. I've never gotten to do a werewolf movie, except maybe Taxi Driver, but... I've always wanted to do it. If anybody wants me to a werewolf movie, I'll really do it very cheaply. I love werewolf movies. But I quite like vampire movies too. I like horror movies of all kinds. They seem wonderfully metaphorical, you know. Vampire movies are obviously about the sort of oral stage of sexuality and I think that werewolf movies are about the anal stage, you know, it's sort of there behind and you don't know what it is... is it going to erupt? No, I think that's true, really. I know it sounds silly, but I... so I got to do a vampire movie and I've always wanted to do every kind. You know, in a way, [The] White Dawn was my western. Although I did do a western which we skipped over, and just this last... under an assumed name, because I... well, that's a long story.

Oh my God. I'd fled New York with the woman who is in the other room and I had no money, and I was out here. But I was a reasonably well-known cameraman. How did we get into this? Oh, I know. So I couldn't just do movies under my own name, you know. And I didn't have a card in the Union here. At that time there were separate Unions and I was really broke. I had left with, like, 35 cents. And so I got a job doing a pathetic non-union western in New Mexico and Arizona with various actors and things who were on their uppers, for one reason or another, or in low points in their career. And I couldn't do it under my own name, and so I did it under the name of... I can't think. What's the name of... of the hero of the Henry James novel, The Ambassadors? Oh, Jesus. Sort of naive middle-aged New England man, off in the great world of Paris, in this case. I thought it was just right so I took his name and did the movie under that name. Now, isn't that terrible, it's a good... and I can't remember the man's name. Bloody hell! Anyway, I don't know how I got off on that, but... what was I talking about? Oh, vampire movies, yes! [The] Lost Boys. The Lost Boys, mmmm. I think maybe I... Well, Lost Boys is worth seeing. Lost Boys is worth seeing because it is really quite a stylish, slightly comedic, vampire movie and it's, I think, Joel Schumacher's most heartfelt film, really.