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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.

Alan Ball

For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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Hand Important Over Phone Shook Thing
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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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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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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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’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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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I don’t necessarily believe in vampires or werewolves or that kind of thing, but I believe there is definitely a realm we don’t necessarily have access to.
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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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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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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’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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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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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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