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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.

Alan Ball

Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.
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Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once and it’s too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst.
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I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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I’m from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.
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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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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’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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In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don’t really get freaked out.
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I’d seen ‘Interview with A Vampire’ and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, ‘I love vampires; I have to do a show about vampires.’
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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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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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I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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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Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
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That’s the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever.
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