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Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.

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Alan Ball
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 13
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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'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.
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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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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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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'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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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.
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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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You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.
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Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.
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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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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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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.
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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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There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.
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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 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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