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 BALLI’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.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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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 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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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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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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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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’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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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’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 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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