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.’
ALAN BALLI will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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I’m from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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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