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.
ALAN BALLIt’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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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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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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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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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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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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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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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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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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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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 think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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