We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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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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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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 think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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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 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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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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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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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 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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