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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 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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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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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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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’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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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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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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’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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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
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We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
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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 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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.
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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
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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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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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It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
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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 will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
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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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Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
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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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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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