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 BALLIt’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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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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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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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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 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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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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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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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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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