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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.

Alan Ball

It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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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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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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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 think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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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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 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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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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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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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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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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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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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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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