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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.

Alan Ball

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

Oppose Say Sell Story Think Try Vare
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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Collective Legend Life Manifestation Myth Own Supernatural Thing Unconscious
The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
ALAN BALL

Hand Important Over Phone Shook Thing
I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
ALAN BALL

Bore Case Discover Journey No Nothing
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.
ALAN BALL

Angel Couple Direct Moment Move On Time Want
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.
ALAN BALL

Beauty Country Develop Exist Eye Float Garbage Pece Place Strange Wind
The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
ALAN BALL

Big Easily Ego Kind Tame Thing Unwieldy
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
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.
ALAN BALL

Ballon Burst Feel Fill Heart Like Much Once See Sometimes Too
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.’
ALAN BALL

Dracula Grow Interview Show Vampire
It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
ALAN BALL

Ability Great Realize Surprise Thing
Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
ALAN BALL

Best Everything Going Really Strive Succesful
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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Boring Happy Life Relationship Television Watch
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?
ALAN BALL

Agenda Different Easy Look Metaphor Mind One Organization Shadow Similar Sound Thing
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 BALL

Cave Feel Going Heart Like Much Beauty Sometimes
Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
ALAN BALL

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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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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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