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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 workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.

Alan Ball

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Alan Ball
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 13
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I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.
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I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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Vampires are total sexual metaphors there's just no way around that.
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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.
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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.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
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Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
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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 to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.
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I'm aware of 'Twilight,' but I've never seen the movies or read any of the books. Frankly, the story leaves me cold - why do a vampire story about abstinence?
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Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.
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Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.
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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.
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There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.
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My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.
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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 having a religion.
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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 paradigms.
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I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.
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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg. I don't necessarily believe in vampires or werewolves or that kind of thing, but I believe there is definitely a realm we don't necessarily have access to.
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As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'
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