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.’
ALAN BALLWe live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.
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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 a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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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’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 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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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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 certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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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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For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
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