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.
ALAN BALLThere 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.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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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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 would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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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 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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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 will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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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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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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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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