Alan Ball Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Eye, Wind, America

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

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• 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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• 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.

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  Blood, People, Monkeys

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Alan Ball

  Football, Phones, Hands

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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.

  Alan Ball

  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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• 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.

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  Running, Jobs, Fun

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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.

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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Years, Details, Levels

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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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