It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
ALAN BALLIn 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.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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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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 will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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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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 somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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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 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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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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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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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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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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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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I’m not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there’s going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what’s going to happen.
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