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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.’

Alan Ball

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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Best Comedy Commentary Genuine Romance Sex Social Story Tell Terror Violence
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 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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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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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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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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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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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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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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 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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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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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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 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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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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