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 BALLThat’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.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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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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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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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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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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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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