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.
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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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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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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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.
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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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I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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 certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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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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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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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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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 would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
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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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