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Never underestimate the power of denial.
Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.
I think sexuality is a window into someone's soul.
You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.
Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.
Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.
If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.
I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.
I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.
I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.
The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth.
I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.
We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.
I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.
You cannot hold a child accountable to the same standards that you hold an adult accountable to.
I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'
The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.
I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.
You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.
Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.
My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.
Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.
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.
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.
Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.
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.
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.'
Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.
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.
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.
It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.
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.
I'm aware of 'Twilight,' but I've never seen the movies or read any of the books. Frankly, the story leaves me cold - why do a vampire story about abstinence?
Life is infinitely complex, and I feel like we live in a culture that really seems to want to simplify it into sound bites and bromides, and that does not work.
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.
'True Blood' differs from 'Six Feet Under' in that there are way more characters and plot-lines, but fundamentally it's still about the characters and their emotions.
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.
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.
Somebody asked me, 'Why do people like vampires so much?' This was right after Obama had been elected and I said, 'Because we just spent eight years being sucked dry by one.'
'Six Feet Under' was about repressing our deepest, most primal impulses, and 'True Blood' is about giving full sway to them all the time. In a way they are like yin and yang.
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.
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.
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.'