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 BALLThe important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need 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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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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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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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.
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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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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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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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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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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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Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality we desire.
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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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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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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