American - Director | May 13, 1957 -
Well, here's the thing with relationships on 'True Blood': Once they happen then you have to throw a monkey-wrench into them, because to have people be happy is not that exciting.
Alan Ball
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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.
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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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Death showed up in my life very early on, so I'm aware of it. If you look at most of the things I write there's a sort of contemplation of mortality - although 'True Blood' doesn't fall into that. Even though there's such a ridiculously high body count!
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'Six Feet Under' was about repressing our deepest, most primal impulses, and 'True Blood' is about giving full sway to them all the time. In a way they are like yin and yang.
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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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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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We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.
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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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Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.
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You cannot hold a child accountable to the same standards that you hold an adult accountable to.
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I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.
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