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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

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 will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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 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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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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 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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Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
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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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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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