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.
ALAN BALLHappy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don’t want to watch them on TV.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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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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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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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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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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 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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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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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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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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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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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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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