Alan Ball Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“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 a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.”

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

“Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.”

“We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.”

“I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.”

“The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.”

“When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.”

“I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life.”

“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 and some romance and some sex and some violence.”