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.
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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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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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 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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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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