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If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.
Alan Ball
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Alan Ball
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 13
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Alan Erwin Ball
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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.
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You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.
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It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?
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I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.
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The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth.
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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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The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.
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Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.
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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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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 anymore.
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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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