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.
ALAN BALLI would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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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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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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’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 certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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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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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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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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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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 would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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