“I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
That's the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth. — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Life is infinitely complex, and I feel like we live in a culture that really seems to want to simplify it into… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
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… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous,… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Ultimately, physical resemblance isn't as important as whether this person can bring this character to life in a way that's compelling and… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Death showed up in my life very early on, so I'm aware of it. If you look at most of the things… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
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… — 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
