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.
ALAN BALLFor me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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 not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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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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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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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 would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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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 think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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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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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It’s also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?
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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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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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