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
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
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
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
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
I don't really know what it is about vampires that makes them such a powerful symbol, metaphor, whatever in people's consciousness. But… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I love to direct! I get really jazzed by directing, but directing is not the same kind of personal expression, the same… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I really feel like my goal, and I don't always achieve it, is to do the best work I can do, and… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a… — 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… — 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed. — Alan Ball Copy Share
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
The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television. — Alan Ball Copy Share
'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
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
“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… — Alan Ball Copy Share
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… — Alan Ball Copy Share
I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical… — Alan Ball Copy Share
