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.
ALAN BALLI would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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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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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 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 somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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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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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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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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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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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 will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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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I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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