A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do. — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Somebody asked me, 'Why do people like vampires so much?' This was right after Obama had been elected and I said, 'Because… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I certainly feel fortunate in my career to have been able to continue to work in different mediums. I don't ever want… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to get interested in stories that ignore death, which is what American marketing culture would like to do:… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg. I don't necessarily believe in vampires… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood. — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
“Well did you call the hypothetical hardware store and buy a theoretical chainsaw?-- Pam to Jessica, True Blood” — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
“Pam: I don't know what it is about me that makes people think I want to hear their problems. Maybe I smile too much.… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
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… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I don't really know what it is about vampires that makes them such a powerful symbol, metaphor, whatever in people's consciousness. But I do… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
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… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
“I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed. — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television. — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
'Six Feet Under' was about repressing our deepest, most primal impulses, and 'True Blood' is about giving full sway to them all the time.… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I'd seen 'Interview with A Vampire' and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, 'I love vampires; I have to do a… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
