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.
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.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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 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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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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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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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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
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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 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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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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’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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