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.
ALAN BALLThe important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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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 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’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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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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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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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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