Alan Ball Quotes

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• I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'
• 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 hard look at…
• I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it…
• I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.
• Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.
• Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.
• And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made…
• In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get…
• Ultimately, physical resemblance isn't as important as whether this person can bring this character to life in a way that's compelling and makes me care…
• Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily…
• Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.
• Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.
• 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 these…
• I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.
• I think sexuality is a window into someone's soul.
• I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.
• I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
• I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
• I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
• 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 show…

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