Alan Ball Quotes

• I felt pride, wonderful pride, when I was captain. It was an honour to take over from Labby. Anybody who has ever captained a big club, which Everton are, will tell you it's a great honour.

  Alan Ball

  Pride, Clubs, Captains

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

  Alan Ball

  Touched, Everton

  "There is something special about Everton" by Luke O'Farrell, www.espn.com. October 23, 2013.

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• Es genial cuando te das cuenta de que aún tienes la capacidad de sorprenderte a ti mismo. Hace que te preguntes qué más puedes hacer que hayas olvidado.

  Alan Ball

  Belleza, Maravilla, Realización

  Alan Ball, Sam Mendes (1999). "American Beauty: The Shooting Script", Newmarket Press

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• A veces siento que lo veo todo a la vez y es demasiado. Mi corazón se llena como un globo a punto de estallar.

  Alan Ball

  Belleza, Sabiduría, Corazón

  Alan Ball, Sam Mendes (1999). "American Beauty: The Shooting Script", Newmarket Press

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

  Alan Ball

  Thinking, Trying, Stories

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• I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.

  Alan Ball

  Football, Believe, Luck

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• Ese fue el día en que me di cuenta de que había toda una vida detrás de las cosas, y esta fuerza increíblemente benévola que quería que supiera que no había razón para tener miedo, nunca... A veces hay tanta belleza en el mundo que siento que no puedo soportarla y que mi corazón se va a derrumbar.

  Alan Ball

  Vida, Belleza, Corazón

  "Personaje de ficción: Ricky Fitts". "American Beauty", www.imdb.com. 8 de septiembre de 1999.

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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.

  Alan Ball

  Successful, Strive, Can Do

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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.

  Alan Ball

  Distance, Reality, Love Is

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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.

  Alan Ball

  Stories, Storytelling, Process

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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.

  Alan Ball

  Happy Relationship, Watches, Want

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• Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

  Alan Ball

  Theme, Fascinated

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

  Alan Ball

  Ego, Kind, Bigs

  Interview with Scott Tobias, tv.avclub.com. September 7, 2008.

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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.

  Alan Ball

  Mean, Thinking, Collective Unconscious

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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.

  Alan Ball

  Real, Community, Certain

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• I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

  Alan Ball

  Environment, Progressive, Grew Up

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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.'

  Alan Ball

  Growing Up, Vampire, Saws

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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.

  Alan Ball

  Impossible, Stills, Regions

  Interview with Scott Tobias, tv.avclub.com. September 7, 2008.

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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.

  Alan Ball

  Believe, Vampire, Tip Of The Iceberg

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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.

  Alan Ball

  Sex, Heart, Romance

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• Ultimately, physical resemblance isn't as important as whether this person can bring this character to life in a way that's compelling and makes me care about what happens to them.

  Alan Ball

  Character, Important, Care

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• Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.

  Alan Ball

  Long, Trying, Maps

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• Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I TiVo everything and wait until the end of a season and watch it all over a weekend. For me that's a really satisfying experience, like reading a book.

  Alan Ball

  Book, Reading, Weekend

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

  Alan Ball

  Differences, Pace, Television

  "Death? That's a laugh". Interview with Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2003.

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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.

  Alan Ball

  Song, Choices, Alive

  "Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball talks about the end of the HBO series" by Brian B., movieweb.com. May 25, 2005.

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