I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
ALAN BALLI will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
ALAN BALLI’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.
ALAN BALLFor me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
ALAN BALLThere 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.
ALAN BALLI 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.
ALAN BALLSometimes there’s so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can’t take it, and my heart is going to cave in.
ALAN BALLWe don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
ALAN BALLIt’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
ALAN BALLLife 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.
ALAN BALLI don’t necessarily believe in vampires or werewolves or that kind of thing, but I believe there is definitely a realm we don’t necessarily have access to.
ALAN BALLThat somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
ALAN BALLI would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
ALAN BALLI 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.
ALAN BALLI think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
ALAN BALLI’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.’
ALAN BALLI would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
ALAN BALL