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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.

Alan Ball

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’m not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there’s going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what’s going to happen.
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That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
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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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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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 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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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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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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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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Dracula Grow Interview Show Vampire
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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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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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 think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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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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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