I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
ALAN BALLThe important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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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 would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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 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 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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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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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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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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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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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