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… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
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… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' And I have 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
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
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
I'm not saying that being gay is what defines me, but at the same time, if you feel like you have to… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but… — 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
“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