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.
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.
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.
powerful thinking psych
I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
believe vampire tip-of-the-iceberg
I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg. I don't necessarily believe in vampires or werewolves or that kind of thing, but I believe there is definitely a realm we don't necessarily have access to.
mean thinking collective-unconscious
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.
awful child describe guess lose loses parent word
You know what I find interesting? If you lose a spouse, you're called a widow, or a widower. If you're a child and you lose your parents, then you're an orphan. But what's the word to describe a parent who loses a child? I guess that's just too f**king awful to even have a name.
affection deep hard love
I have such deep affection and love for these characters, I find it hard to be disappointed by them.
bored exactly number
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.
wrote
I had no idea where I was going to go when I wrote the pilot,
business homes sell
As long as I can sell some homes and make some money, that's what we're in business for.
felt suffered
Everyone on the show has suffered so much, I felt like you want it to be hopeful.