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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.

Alan Ball

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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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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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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I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once and it’s too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst.
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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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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 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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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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’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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