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I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.

Alan Ball

I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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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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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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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 think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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 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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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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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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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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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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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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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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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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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