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
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.
affection deep hard love
I have such deep affection and love for these characters, I find it hard to be disappointed by them.
behind characters love pain suffering
We love these characters and we love them even when they're unlikable, ... We always see the pain and suffering behind the unlikable behavior.
love matter
We love them no matter what they do,
characters differs feet
'True Blood' differs from 'Six Feet Under' in that there are way more characters and plot-lines, but fundamentally it's still about the characters and their emotions.
count vampires whatever
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.
feet full primal sway time
'Six Feet Under' was about repressing our deepest, most primal impulses, and 'True Blood' is about giving full sway to them all the time. In a way they are like yin and yang.
great wish
I wish you all the best, son, you have been great on Merseyside.