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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

We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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Sometimes 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.
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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 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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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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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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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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 would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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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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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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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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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I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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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