Alan Ball Quotes

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• 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 region. Find
• If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason. Better
• The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television. Difference
• When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires. Go
• You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family. Age
• I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads,… Ads
• I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to… Closest
• Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality… Actually Taking
• 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 and… Character
• I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can… Adjusted
• I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart attack. The anxiety would be… Anxiety
• Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through… Artificial
• There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I… Angle
• Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have… Able
• There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood. Culture
• You cannot hold a child accountable to the same standards that you hold an adult accountable to. Accountable
• Life is infinitely complex, and I feel like we live in a culture that really seems to want to simplify it into sound bites and… Bites
• I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy… Best
• Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do. Best
• You know what I find interesting? If you lose a spouse, you're called a widow, or a widower. If you're a child and you lose… Awful

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