It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
ALAN BALLWe live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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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I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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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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’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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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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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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