The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
ALAN BALL
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.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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 say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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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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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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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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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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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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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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