Alan Ball Quotes - Page 3

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

  Alan Ball

  Buddhist, Belief

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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.

  Alan Ball

  America, Perfect, Understanding

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

  Alan Ball

  Powerful, Psych, Thinking

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

  Alan Ball

  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.

  Alan Ball

  Looks, Want, Mental Health

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

  Alan Ball

  Racism, Matter, Ridiculous

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

  Alan Ball

  Vampire, Way, Metaphor

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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