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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.

~Alan Ball

Topics: Alive Choice Flat Just Little Lot Put Right Save Scene Somehow Song Times Will You

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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.

~Alan Ball

Topics: Astray Basically Because Direct Directing Doing Except Expression Get Getting Going Intimate Job Kind Love Managing Out People Personal Really Same See Them Writing You I Love

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

~Alan Ball

Topics: Because Clock Directing Enjoyable Exciting People Physically Social Ticking Very Working You

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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.

~Alan Ball

Topics: About Back Burn Career Crash Depending Directing Even Give Go Great Great Thing Happens Movies Novel People Permission Plays Stop Thing Think Tv Wait Write Writing You

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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.

~Alan Ball

Topics: Anxiety Attack Backbone Before Filming Heart Here Know Like Lot Me Much Other Pages Right Show Shows Start Strong Those Too Too Much Way Would Writers

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In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get freaked out. I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it's horrifying. But that's just human nature.

~Alan Ball

Topics: About Certainly Collective Did Each Freaked Get Goal Horrifying Human Human Nature Just Legends Life Manifestation Mean My Own Mystical Mythic Nature Occult Other Out Own People Pursuit Read Really Some Supernatural Things Think Unconscious You I Think

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

~Alan Ball

Topics: About Go Go Home Home Last Lore Popular Read Thing Vampires Want

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

~Alan Ball

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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.

~Alan Ball

Topics: Always Being Choose Deeper Exists Fundamental Heart Humans Life Look Lost Modern More Much Nature Our Outside Perhaps Primal Something Supernatural Than Thing Touch Way

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I don't really know what it is about vampires that makes them such a powerful symbol, metaphor, whatever in people's consciousness. But I do know they're tremendously powerful. I mean, there's a vampire on 'Sesame Street.' And Count Chocula. I don't know why it's so powerful.

~Alan Ball

Topics: About Consciousness Count Know Makes Mean Metaphor People Powerful Really Sesame Sesame Street Street Symbol Them Tremendously Vampire Vampires Whatever Why

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: May 13th, 1957

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