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

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Well, here's the thing with relationships on 'True Blood': Once they happen then you have to throw a monkey-wrench into them, because to have people be happy is not that exciting.

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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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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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

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

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

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

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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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There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

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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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I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.

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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. I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.

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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 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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A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and somehow it just comes alive.

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I think sexuality is a window into someone's soul.

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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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