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.
ALAN BALLThat somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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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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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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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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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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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 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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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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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