I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
ALAN BALLThe important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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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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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I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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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 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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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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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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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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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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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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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 think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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