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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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.
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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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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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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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