Alan Ball

The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.

— Alan Ball

“Well did you call the hypothetical hardware store and buy a theoretical chainsaw?-- Pam to Jessica, True Blood”

— Alan Ball

“Pam: I don't know what it is about me that makes people think I want to hear their problems. Maybe I smile…

— Alan Ball

Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until…

— Alan Ball

I don't really know what it is about vampires that makes them such a powerful symbol, metaphor, whatever in people's consciousness. But…

— Alan Ball

I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of…

— Alan Ball

“I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that…

— Alan Ball

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

— Alan Ball

Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists…

— Alan Ball

The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

— Alan Ball

'Six Feet Under' was about repressing our deepest, most primal impulses, and 'True Blood' is about giving full sway to them all…

— Alan Ball

I'd seen 'Interview with A Vampire' and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, 'I love vampires; I have to…

— Alan Ball

“The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous. To me, vampires are sex. I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I don't…

— Alan Ball

As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very…

— Alan Ball

I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as…

— Alan Ball

And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy…

— Alan Ball

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

I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' And I have to…

— Alan Ball

Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's…

— Alan Ball

Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.

— Alan Ball

I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.

— Alan Ball

That's the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to…

— Alan Ball

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

It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can…

— Alan Ball

I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

— Alan Ball