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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

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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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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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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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 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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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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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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 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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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 not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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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