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 BALLOnce Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
More Alan Ball Quotes
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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 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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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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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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 certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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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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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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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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