Alan Ball Quotes, Believe Quotes, Vampire Quotes

I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg. 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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I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.

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If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

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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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Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.

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I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.

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I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.

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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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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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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... 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 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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Ultimately, physical resemblance isn't as important as whether this person can bring this character to life in a way that's compelling and makes me care about what happens to them.

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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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I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?

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I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

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I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.

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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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It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. 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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The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

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