Quotes by Alan Ball

Alan Ball

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.

Alive

Choices

Song

And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.

Buddhism

Growing Up

Philosophy

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.’

Other Cultures

Want

Way

As a writer, it’s fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone and format, after a while it’s a really great job, but that’s what it is – a job.

Fun

Jobs

Running

Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.

America

Eye

Wind

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.

Acknowledge

Companion

Terrible

Directing is physically exciting because there’s a ticking clock, you’re working with people, it’s very social, it’s very enjoyable.

Clock Is Ticking

People

Social

Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don’t want to watch them on TV.

Happy Relationship

Want

Watches

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.

Heart

Looks

Self

I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.

Littles

Tv Shows

Tvs

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Acknowledge

Age

Alive

America

Anxiety

Beauty

Believe

Bigs

Bisexual

Blood

Book

Bored

Buddhism

Can Do

Care

Character

Choices

Clock Is Ticking

Companion

Couple

Denial

Distance

Ego

Emotional

Environment

Eye

Football

Frustrated

Fun

Gay

Grew Up

Growing Up

Hands

Happy Relationship

Heart

Home

Ideas

Important

Impossible

Jobs

Journey

Kind

Life

Littles

Long

Looks

Love Is

Luck

Maps

Matter

The Future Blueprint

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Quotes by Alan Ball

Alan Ball

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.

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.’

As a writer, it’s fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone and format, after a while it’s a really great job, but that’s what it is – a job.

Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.

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.

Directing is physically exciting because there’s a ticking clock, you’re working with people, it’s very social, it’s very enjoyable.

Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don’t want to watch them on TV.

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.

I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.

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