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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.

Alan Ball

I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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Archetype People Powerful Psyche Timeless Vampire
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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Fondness Geographical Mpossible Personally Region
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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Compare Desir Expectation Life Miraculous Reality Suffering Wondrous
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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Close Come Incredible Love Nourish Probably Religion Reveal Storytelling
We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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Anymore Community Real Sense
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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Dracula Grow Interview Show Vampire
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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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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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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Captain Over Person Pride Take Wonderful
I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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Believer Luck Need
It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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Ability Great Realize Surprise Thing
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’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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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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 would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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