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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
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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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Never underestimate the power of denial.
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There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon I move on.
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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'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
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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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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.
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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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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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Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.
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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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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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The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst.
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If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.
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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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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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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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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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