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.
ALAN BALLFor me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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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 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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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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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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I don’t necessarily believe in vampires or werewolves or that kind of thing, but I believe there is definitely a realm we don’t necessarily have access to.
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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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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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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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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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