Alan Ball Quotes - Page 3

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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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• 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.

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  Years, Details, Levels

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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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• 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.'

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  Other Cultures, Want, Way

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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.

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  America, Perfect, Understanding

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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...

  Alan Ball

  Beauty, Gratitude, Stupid

  "Fictional character: Lester Burnham". "American Beauty", www.imdb.com. September 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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• I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

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  Trying, Waste, Firsts

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

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• You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.

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  Beauty, Wisdom, Talking

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

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• The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth.

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  Death, Important, Facts

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• I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

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  School, Care, Students

  "The Joy of Vampire Sex: The Schlocky, Sensual Secrets Behind the Success of ‘True Blood’". Interview with Vanessa Grigoriadis, www.rollingstone.com. June 10, 2011.

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• My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.

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  Mean, People, Cost

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• I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.

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  Looks, Want, Mental Health

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• Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

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  Racism, Matter, Ridiculous

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

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  Buddhist, Belief

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