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?
ALAN BALLBeauty 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.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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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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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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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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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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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 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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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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