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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.

Alan Ball

I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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Believer Luck Need
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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Author Exactly Happen Like Number Person Season
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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Boring Happy Life Relationship Television Watch
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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Ballon Burst Feel Fill Heart Like Much Once See Sometimes Too
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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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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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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Anymore Community Real Sense
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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Best Comedy Commentary Genuine Romance Sex Social Story Tell Terror Violence
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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Best Everything Going Really Strive Succesful
Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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Nothing Once Person Same Touch
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 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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Close Come Incredible Love Nourish Probably Religion Reveal Storytelling
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 would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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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 would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
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