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.
ALAN BALLThe important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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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 say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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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 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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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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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 certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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 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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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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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