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.
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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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 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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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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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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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 think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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It’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?
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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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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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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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