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Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.

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My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.

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I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

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I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' And I have to say, it was the single biggest step I took toward emotional well-being, to stop feeling like I had to hide who I am.

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We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

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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. That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering. For me, the thing that I love is that it's all about the present moment.

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The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth.

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Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.

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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 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 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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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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Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.

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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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We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

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Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.

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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'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.

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When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.

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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

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