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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.

Alan Ball

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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Ballon Burst Feel Fill Heart Like Much Once See Sometimes Too
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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Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don’t want to watch them on TV.
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Boring Happy Life Relationship Television Watch
The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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Big Easily Ego Kind Tame Thing Unwieldy
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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Access Belief Belive Definitely Kind Necessary Thing Vampire Werewolves
We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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Anymore Community Real Sense
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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Best Everything Going Really Strive Succesful
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 think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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Ability Great Realize Surprise Thing
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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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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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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 would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
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Bore Case Discover Journey No Nothing
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’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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