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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.

Alan Ball

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.
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Life 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.
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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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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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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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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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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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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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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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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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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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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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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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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