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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

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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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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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 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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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’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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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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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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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can’t take it, and my heart is going to cave in.
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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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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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