Give them fangs, and that's all they need. We don't have time or money to do that and, second of all, just let the actors act it. I wanted to avoid the vampires getting strange contact lenses when their fangs came out or any sort of head prosthetic because, first of all, it's a TV show.

I wanted to avoid the instantaneous incineration or the instantaneous turning into dust. There are differences in what happens to vampires being staked. I wanted to approach the supernatural not as being something that exists outside of nature, but something that is more deeply rooted in nature, perhaps more so than our physiological perception apparatus is equipped to perceive. 'We went to great pains to sort of depict a certain kind of physiology for the fangs where they actually are retracted like rattlesnake fangs, and then they click forward. Vampires - in our world, a lot of the myths about vampires were created by vampires themselves over history so that they could pass because, if you could convince everybody that, you know, you couldn't be seen in a mirror or that you would freak out if somebody shoved a crucifix in your face, then you could prove you weren't a vampire pretty easily.' He continued by elaborating on some of the specifics of the physical nature of the vampires in True Blood. All I knew was the movies that I'd seen…I can tell you some specific ways the mythology differs. This was really my first foray into the world of vampires. I don't - I'm not really a big vampire fanatic. I personally have never seen Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Angel. Asked what this show might do different for vampires on television, Ball remarked that 'I think it's pretty lame when you let your vampire go out in the day just because you don't want to shoot at night.

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