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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

It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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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’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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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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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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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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 certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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 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 not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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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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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 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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