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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.

Alan Ball

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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Angel Couple Direct Moment Move On Time Want
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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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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Easy Fear Group Look Metaphor Misunderstood Vampire
For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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Love Moment Present Thing
The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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Hand Important Over Phone Shook Thing
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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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Believe Certain Human Iceberg Perceive Tip
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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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Big Easily Ego Kind Tame Thing Unwieldy
It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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Ability Great Realize Surprise Thing
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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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’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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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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