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I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.

Alan Ball

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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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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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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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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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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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 ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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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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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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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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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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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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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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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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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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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