Alan Ball Quotes, Growing Up Quotes, Vampire Quotes

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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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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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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Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

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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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I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.

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

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As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'

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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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It’s hard to stay mad, when there’s so much beauty in the world. 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... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life...

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It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.

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

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

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

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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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You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.

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