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.
ALAN BALLIt’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?
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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 easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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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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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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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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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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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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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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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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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