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.
ALAN BALLThe ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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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 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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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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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Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once and it’s too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst.
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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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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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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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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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 would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
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