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.
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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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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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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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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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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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I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need 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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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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’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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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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I felt pride, wonderful pride, when I was captain. It was an honour to take over from Labby. Anybody who has ever captained a big club, which Everton are, will tell you it’s a great honour.
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