Alan Ball quotes

I think sexuality is a window into someone's soul. (Alan Ball)
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. View quote
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There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood. View quote
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We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore. View quote
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I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.' View quote
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I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell. View quote
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Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do. View quote
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I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion. View quote
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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive. View quote
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Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV. View quote
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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)
The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television. View quote
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If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men. View quote
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Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from. View quote
Alan Ball
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued. (Alan Ball)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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? View quote
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