The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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.
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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 somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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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 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’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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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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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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 think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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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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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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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