Alan Ball
Alan Ball
Alan Erwin Ball is an American writer, director, and producer for television, film, and theatre...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Producer
Date of Birth13 May 1957
CityMarietta, GA
CountryUnited States of America
environment progressive grew
I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
powerful thinking psych
I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
character thinking world
I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.
thinking soul window
I think sexuality is a window into someone's soul.
thinking careers acting
I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.
buddhist believe i-believe
I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.
tv-shows littles tvs
I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.
happy-relationship want tvs
Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.
real community certain
We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.
america perfect understanding
I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.
long trying maps
Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.
book twilight vampire
I'm aware of 'Twilight,' but I've never seen the movies or read any of the books. Frankly, the story leaves me cold - why do a vampire story about abstinence?
sex heart romance
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.
meaningful jobs frustrated
I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.