American - Director | May 13, 1957 -
I think there's a lot of interesting stuff on TV. I feel much more optimistic about TV than I do about movies. There will always be good movies but I think, for the most part, it's always going to be a huge fight to get those movies made. TV is the best place to be as a writer, I think.
Alan Ball
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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.
LifeGoodMyselfPeopleMeConflict
I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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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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I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.
CharacterGreatIdentityThinkWay
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'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.
LiveImpossibleFindStillFondness
The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.
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I really feel like my goal, and I don't always achieve it, is to do the best work I can do, and stay out of the results. Because ultimately, the result is not what the work is about. There are other people whose jobs are to focus on those results and maximize them, and that's great. Let them do their job.
WorkGreatBestFocusJobPeople
Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.
LifeHappyWantBoringRelationships
Somebody asked me, 'Why do people like vampires so much?' This was right after Obama had been elected and I said, 'Because we just spent eight years being sucked dry by one.'
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My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.
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