I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
ALAN BALLMakes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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’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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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 would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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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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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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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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 be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
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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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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