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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.

Alan Ball

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 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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Best Comedy Commentary Genuine Romance Sex Social Story Tell Terror Violence
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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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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Love Moment Present Thing
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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Certainly Goal Human Nature People Pursuit Read
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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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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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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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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