Julie Plec Quotes

“Our life is one, big proverbial coin toss.”
― L.J. Smith

“Julie Plec: When [Arrowverse cocreator] Greg Berlanti saw The Vampire Diaries for the first time he said to me, 'I firmly believe that every actor has the role that they are meant to play that opens the lock to the power of their career, and this is that role for Paul Wesley.”
― Samantha Highfill, I Was Feeling Epic: An Oral History of The Vampire Diaries

“Julie Plec: She's staring up longingly and you realize this is a character that wants something, that needs something emotionally. She is being driven by a deeply personal want here, and that sort of became the rule on the show that if you have a villain, the villain has to be the hero of their own story, they have to have a deeply personal rooting interest. That's the moment where I fell in love with Katherine as a hero of her own story. I had so much empathy for her in that moment.”
― Samantha Highfill, I Was Feeling Epic: An Oral History of The Vampire Diaries

“Julie Plec: In that scene where she's crying in the Salvatore great room as she's coming out of this memory, I finally found my voice for the show, which was this is a show about the fear of loneliness and the fear of being left behind and the fear of getting to the end of your life and not having loved or been loved in the right way, or losing your love and not ever being able to see them again. Moving forward, every episode had to have that emotional core in it as well. So we're building the formula for Vampire Diaries writing in real time over the course of the third season..... And the ratings started going up, which never happens. That's the moment I took a breath. The ratings, which had been pretty steady for two seasons, started ticking up. We all were like, 'Okay, no one's fired, no one's getting canceled.”
― Samantha Highfill, I Was Feeling Epic: An Oral History of The Vampire Diaries

“Julie Plec: It just made me realize: This is the love story right here. Because we knew Nina was leaving by then, so this is the love story; these brothers are the love story.”
― Samantha Highfill, I Was Feeling Epic: An Oral History of The Vampire Diaries