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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.

Alan Ball

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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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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’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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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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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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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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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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Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality we desire.
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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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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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