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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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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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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’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 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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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In 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.
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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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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 be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
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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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I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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 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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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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