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I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.

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

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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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Never underestimate the power of denial.

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

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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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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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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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I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.

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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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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 need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.

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

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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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The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

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

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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 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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