I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
ALAN BALLI will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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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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 will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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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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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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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 felt pride, wonderful pride, when I was captain. It was an honour to take over from Labby. Anybody who has ever captained a big club, which Everton are, will tell you it’s a great honour.
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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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