A long-running show leaves behind a legacy of storytellers and their relationship with the audience.

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• Julie Plec:

  'The Vampire Diaries' is a serialized drama. It deserved its final chapter.

• Julie Plec:

  The intensity of the story breaking on 'Vampire' has never been easy. Every week, you're starting w

• Julie Plec:

  The way that 'Vampire' was born was over a lunch. We got asked to do the show. A week later, we wer

• Julie Plec:

  Every night, I will write until I'm done. Until my eyes are burning and tearing, and I can't see th

• Julie Plec:

  If I walk into the editing room, it's six hours lost. I'm massaging frames. I'm, like, 'Oh, take si

• Julie Plec:

  I work very hard so that I can be present all the time for what I do and then carve out little pock

• Julie Plec:

  Showrunning is an arrogant job. You have to be arrogant and hold yourself strong in order for peopl

• Julie Plec:

  An actor's only perception is of their character, and they're looking at one piece. A writer is loo

• Julie Plec:

  The problem with ratings is that you can give yourself a million reasons why they are what they are

• Julie Plec:

  I learned that getting a movie made in Hollywood is a near impossibility, and the process can be a