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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.

Alan Ball

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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I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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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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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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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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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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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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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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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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