You cannot hold a child accountable to the same standards that you hold an adult accountable to. — 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
Well, here's the thing with relationships on 'True Blood': Once they happen then you have to throw a monkey-wrench into them, because… — 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
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
Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists… — 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
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 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
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
Depending on what happens with my directing career, I don't think I'll stop writing, even if I crash and burn in movies… — 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
“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
