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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.

Alan Ball

I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it’s horrifying. But that’s just human nature.
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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can’t take it, and my heart is going to cave in.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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I’m not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there’s going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what’s going to happen.
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There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn’t get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.
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I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It’s an incredibly nourishing process; it’s probably the closest I come to having a religion.
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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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Anymore Community Real Sense
Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality we desire.
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I don’t necessarily believe in vampires or werewolves or that kind of thing, but I believe there is definitely a realm we don’t necessarily have access to.
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I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
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I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.
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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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