Alan Ball Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Alan Ball

  Journey, Numbers, Bored

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

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• Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.

  Alan Ball

  Eye, Wind, America

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Alan Ball

  Character, Thinking, Roots

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• I think it's very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way.

  Alan Ball

  Spiritual, Integrity, Thinking

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• 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?

  Alan Ball

  Book, Twilight, Vampire

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• I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

  Alan Ball

  Buddhist, Belief

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• I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

  Alan Ball

  America, Perfect, Understanding

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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.

  Alan Ball

  Heart, Self, Looks

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• It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.

  Alan Ball

  Years, Details, Levels

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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.

  Alan Ball

  Couple, Moving, Noon

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

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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.

  Alan Ball

  Meaningful, Jobs, Frustrated

  "American Ball: 'Beauty' screenwriter mining his past" by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. October 08, 1999.

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

  Alan Ball

  Thinking, Soul, Window

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• Si una escena dura más de tres páginas, más vale que sea por una buena razón.

  Alan Ball

  Three, Pages, 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.

  Alan Ball

  Blood, People, Monkeys

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• When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.

  Alan Ball

  Home, Vampire, Want

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• You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.

  Alan Ball

  Gay, Age, Grew Up

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• I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?

  Alan Ball

  Watches, Culture, Ugh

  "True Blood creator Alan Ball on season two: sink your teeth into this". Interview with Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2010.

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• We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

  Alan Ball

  Men, Culture, Okay

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• I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.

  Alan Ball

  Buddhist, Believe, I Believe

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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.

  Alan Ball

  Tv Shows, Littles, Tvs

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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.

  Alan Ball

  Correr, Trabajo, Diversión

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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.'

  Alan Ball

  Other Cultures, Want, Way

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• I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart attack. The anxiety would be way too much for me. I don't have as strong a backbone as those other show writers.

  Alan Ball

  Strong, Heart, Anxiety

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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.

  Alan Ball

  World, Environment, Window

  "American Ball: 'Beauty' screenwriter mining his past". Interview with Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. October 8, 1999.

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• I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.

  Alan Ball

  Character, Thinking, World

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