All Alan Ball Quotes
- 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