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Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.
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Alan Ball
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 13
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Alan Erwin Ball
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Well, here's the thing with relationships on 'True Blood': Once they happen then you have to throw a monkey-wrench into them, because to have people be happy is not that exciting.
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When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.
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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 definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.
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I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.
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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 about to burst.
Alan Ball
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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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.
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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 way too much for me. I don't have as strong a backbone as those other show writers.
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The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.
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Ultimately, physical resemblance isn't as important as whether this person can bring this character to life in a way that's compelling and makes me care about what happens to them.
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I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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I'm not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there's going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what's going to happen. I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
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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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Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
Alan Ball
If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.
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Never underestimate the power of denial.
Alan Ball
I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.
Alan Ball
Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.
Alan Ball
I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
Alan Ball
