Alan Ball Quotes - Page 3

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

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  Differences, Pace, Television

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

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

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  Three, Pages, Reason

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

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  Thinking, Soul, Window

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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.

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  Character, Thinking, World

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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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• Never underestimate the power of denial.

  Alan Ball

  Beauty, Denial, Underestimate

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

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• It’s hard to stay mad, when there’s so much beauty in the world. 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... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life...

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  Beauty, Gratitude, Stupid

  "Fictional character: Lester Burnham". "American Beauty", www.imdb.com. September 8, 1999.

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• The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous. To me, vampires are sex. I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

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  Sex, School, Ideas

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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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  Thinking, Careers, Acting

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• Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.

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  Vampire, Way, Metaphor

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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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  Growing Up, Philosophy, Buddhism

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• 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.

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  Companion, Terrible, Acknowledge

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• The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.

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  Football, Phones, Hands

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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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  Clock Is Ticking, People, Social

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

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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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  Couple, Moving, Noon

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

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• I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.

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  Powerful, Psych, Thinking

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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.

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  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.

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  Spiritual, Integrity, Thinking

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