Willem Dafoe credited as playing...
Max Schreck
- [Asked what he thought of the book, Dracula]
- Max Schreck: It made me sad.
- Albin: Why sad?
- Max Schreck: Because Dracula had no servants.
- Albin: I think you missed the point of the book, Count Orlock.
- Max Schreck: Dracula hasn't had servants in 400 years and then a man comes to his ancestral home, and he must convince him that he... that he is like the man. He has to feed him, when he himself hasn't eaten food in centuries. Can he even remember how to buy bread? How to select cheese and wine? And then he remembers the rest of it. How to prepare a meal, how to make a bed. He remembers his first glory, his armies, his retainers, and what he is reduced to. The loneliest part of the book comes... when the man accidentally sees Dracula setting his table.
- F.W. Murnau: Why him, you monster? Why not the... script girl?
- Max Schreck: Oh. The script girl. I'll eat her later.
- F.W. Murnau: Don't think I can't harm you.
- Max Schreck: Tell me how you would harm me when even I don't know how I could harm myself.
- F.W. Murnau: I will not allow you to destroy my picture!
- Max Schreck: This is hardly your picture any longer.
- Max Schreck: There was a time... when I... fed from golden chalices. But now... Don't look at me that way!