Alan Ball Quotes - Page 2

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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 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 was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' And I have to say, it was the single biggest step I took toward emotional well-being, to stop feeling like I had to hide who I am.

  Alan Ball

  Bisexual, Emotional, Who I Am

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• There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

  Alan Ball

  Culture, Victimhood, Not Interested

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

  Alan Ball

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

  Alan Ball

  Buddhist, Believe, I Believe

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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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• 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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• I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.

  Alan Ball

  Character, Emotional, People

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

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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 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'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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• It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?

  Alan Ball

  Organization, Misunderstood, Mind

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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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