I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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 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’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 not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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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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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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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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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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It’s an incredibly nourishing process; it’s probably the closest I come to having a religion.
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We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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