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.
ALAN BALLIt’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?
More Alan Ball Quotes
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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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.’
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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 certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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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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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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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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I felt pride, wonderful pride, when I was captain. It was an honour to take over from Labby. Anybody who has ever captained a big club, which Everton are, will tell you it’s a great honour.
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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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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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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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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