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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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Alan Ball
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 13
Director
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Alan Erwin Ball
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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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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'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 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 always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life.
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You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.
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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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We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.
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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 ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.
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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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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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