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.
ALAN BALLIt’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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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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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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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I’m from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.
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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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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’m not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there’s going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what’s going to happen.
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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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I felt pride, wonderful pride, when I was captain. It was an honour to take over from Labby. Anybody who has ever captained a big club, which Everton are, will tell you it’s a great honour.
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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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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