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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.

Alan Ball

I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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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 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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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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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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 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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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 certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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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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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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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