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Alan Ball Quotes

American - Director | May 13, 1957 -

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

Good Better Three Reason Than Scene

'True Blood' differs from 'Six Feet Under' in that there are way more characters and plot-lines, but fundamentally it's still about the characters and their emotions.

Feet Emotions Blood True Way More

I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.

Think Care You Say Will Try

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.

Song You Choice Alive Will Right

I love to direct! I get really jazzed by directing, but directing is not the same kind of personal expression, the same kind of personal intimate expression that writing is. Because when you're directing, you're basically managing, basically getting out of people doing their job, except when you see them going astray.

Love Job People Writing Doing You

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

People You Clock Social Working

Depending on what happens with my directing career, I don't think I'll stop writing, even if I crash and burn in movies and TV. I'll go back to plays. Even if I crash and burn there, I'll write a novel. That's the great thing about writing is that you don't have to wait for people to give you permission to do it.

Great People Wait Writing Think You

I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart attack. The anxiety would be way too much for me. I don't have as strong a backbone as those other show writers.

Heart Me Start Strong Anxiety Know

When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.

Home Go Want Last Read Go Home

I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.

Forgiveness Believe Possible Buddhist

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.

Life Nature Heart Choose Look Lost

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.

Heart Best Story Comedy Violence

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