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Never underestimate the power of denial.

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

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

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I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life.

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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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Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.

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

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

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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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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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I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

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I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

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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. 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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As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone and format, after a while it's a really great job, but that's what it is - a job.

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

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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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