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.
ALAN BALLSometimes 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.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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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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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 ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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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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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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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 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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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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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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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