I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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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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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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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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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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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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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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 easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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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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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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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