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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.

Alan Ball

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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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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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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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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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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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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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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I’d seen ‘Interview with A Vampire’ and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, ‘I love vampires; I have to do a show about vampires.’
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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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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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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don’t really get freaked out.
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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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