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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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That's the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is going to cave in.
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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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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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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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You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.
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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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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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Vampires are total sexual metaphors there's just no way around that.
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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 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.
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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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The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.
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If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.
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I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.
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Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I TiVo everything and wait until the end of a season and watch it all over a weekend. For me that's a really satisfying experience, like reading a book.
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It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.
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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'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'
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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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A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and somehow it just comes alive.
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