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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

~Alan Ball

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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.

~Alan Ball

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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.

~Alan Ball

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Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.

~Alan Ball

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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.

~Alan Ball

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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.

~Alan Ball

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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 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.

~Alan Ball

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

~Alan Ball

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: May 13th, 1957

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