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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 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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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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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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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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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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I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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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 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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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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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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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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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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 a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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