I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
ALAN BALLBeauty 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.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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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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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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’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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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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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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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 would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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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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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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