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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.

Alan Ball

We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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Alienation Certain Disconnection Factor Live Time
The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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Big Easily Ego Kind Tame Thing Unwieldy
I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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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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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Cave Feel Going Heart Like Much Beauty Sometimes
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 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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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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Love Moment Present Thing
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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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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Anymore Community Real Sense
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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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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Hand Important Over Phone Shook Thing
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 certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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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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