I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
ALAN BALLIn 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.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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 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 be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
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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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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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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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 felt pride, wonderful pride, when I was captain. It was an honour to take over from Labby. Anybody who has ever captained a big club, which Everton are, will tell you it’s a great honour.
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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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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 a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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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