We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
ALAN BALLFor me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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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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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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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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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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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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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 really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It’s an incredibly nourishing process; it’s probably the closest I come to having a religion.
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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 somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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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 will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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