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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

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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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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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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
I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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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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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’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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 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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