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There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

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 important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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 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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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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The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth.
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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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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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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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You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.
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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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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 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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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.
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I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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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It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.
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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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Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality we desire. That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering. For me, the thing that I love is that it's all about the present moment.
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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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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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