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.
ALAN BALLWe don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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 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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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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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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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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 would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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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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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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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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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