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
pages three reason
If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.
series
What the series is all about is: We die. So while we're here, let's live fully.
world environment window
Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.
football believe luck
I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
life beauty heart
That's the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid. Ever. Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it... and my heart is going to cave in.
touched everton
Once Everton has touched you nothing will be the same.
sex school ideas
The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous. To me, vampires are sex. I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.
strong heart anxiety
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.
character emotional people
I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.
trying waste firsts
I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.
impossible stills south
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.
home vampire want
When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.
gay age grew
You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.
ego kind bigs
The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.