Alan Ball Quotes - Page 3

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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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• 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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• 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

  Running, Jobs, Fun

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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 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 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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• 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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• 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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• Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.

  Alan Ball

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

  Alan Ball

  Football, Phones, Hands

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

  Alan Ball

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

  Alan Ball

  Death, Important, Facts

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

  Alan Ball

  Beauty, Wisdom, Talking

  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.

  Alan Ball

  Trying, Waste, Firsts

  "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...

  Alan Ball

  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.

  Alan Ball

  Thinking, Careers, Acting

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

  Alan Ball

  Powerful, Psych, Thinking

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