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 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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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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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 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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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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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