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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.

Alan Ball

For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
ALAN BALL

Love Moment Present Thing
I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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Archetype People Powerful Psyche Timeless Vampire
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.
ALAN BALL

Best Comedy Commentary Genuine Romance Sex Social Story Tell Terror Violence
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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Boring Happy Life Relationship Television Watch
I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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Oppose Say Sell Story Think Try Vare
I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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Believer Luck Need
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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Afraid Benevolent Entire Force Incredibly Realize Reason Thing
The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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Big Easily Ego Kind Tame Thing Unwieldy
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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Cave Feel Going Heart Like Much Beauty Sometimes
Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
ALAN BALL

Nothing Once Person Same Touch
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

Author Exactly Happen Like Number Person Season
Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
ALAN BALL

Best Everything Going Really Strive Succesful
The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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Hand Important Over Phone Shook Thing
I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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Environment Grew Most Progressive Say
I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It’s an incredibly nourishing process; it’s probably the closest I come to having a religion.
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Close Come Incredible Love Nourish Probably Religion Reveal Storytelling
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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