Everyone’s got a dark side, right? But is dark always bad, like in most movies? Irena in the original Cat People didn’t think so – “I like the dark. It’s friendly.”

Thad Beaumont – “Most of us keep that inner-being locked up, hidden away. A fiction writer doesn’t have to do that. He doesn’t have to hide it. He doesn’t have to keep it from anything. He can let it out, bring it out into the open. Let it live, let it breathe. Hell, he can let it party – give it the car keys, let it ride!”