We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
ALAN BALLWe live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
ALAN BALLSometimes there’s so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can’t take it, and my heart is going to cave in.
ALAN BALLThat somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
ALAN BALLI’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.
ALAN BALLI would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
ALAN BALLI would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
ALAN BALLI 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’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.’
ALAN BALLSometimes 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.
ALAN BALLI think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
ALAN BALLWe don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
ALAN BALLMakes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
ALAN BALLI 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.
ALAN BALLI will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
ALAN BALLLife 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.
ALAN BALLI certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
ALAN BALL