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 BALLI’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.’
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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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 would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
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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 certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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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