I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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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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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 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 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’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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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 would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
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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 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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