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I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.

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Alan Ball
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 13
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I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.
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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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The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.
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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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There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.
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I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'
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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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You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.
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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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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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 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 guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.
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Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.
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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 was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' And I have to say, it was the single biggest step I took toward emotional well-being, to stop feeling like I had to hide who I am.
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I think it's very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way.
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In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get freaked out. I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it's horrifying. But that's just human nature.
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I'd seen 'Interview with A Vampire' and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, 'I love vampires I have to do a show about vampires.'
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Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.
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