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'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.
~ Alan Ball
About
Blood
Deepest
Feet
Full
Giving
Impulses
Like
Most
Our
Primal
Six
Sway
Them
Time
True
True Blood
Way
Yang
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'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.
~ Alan Ball
About
Blood
Characters
Differs
Emotions
Feet
Fundamentally
More
Six
Still
True
True Blood
Way
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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
Alive
Choice
Flat
Just
Little
Lot
Put
Right
Save
Scene
Somehow
Song
Times
Will
You
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.
~ Alan Ball
Acceptance
Amount
Any
Being
Buddhism
Christianity
Eastern
Ever
Experience
First
First Time
Focusing
Growing
Growing Up
Had
Imperfect
Liked
Made
Missing
OK
Onto
Philosophy
Read
Really
Sense
Sin
Sort
Stumbled
Time
Tremendous
Tremendous Amount
Up
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As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'
~ Alan Ball
Accept
Bad
Cling
Comfortable
Culture
Cultures
Die
Like
Mortality
Other
Too
Want
Way
Well
Youth
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As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone and format, after a while it's a really great job, but that's what it is - a job.
~ Alan Ball
After
Characters
Create
Established
Format
Fun
Get
Great
Great Job
Job
Once
Really
Show
Tone
Very
While
Writer
You
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Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.
~ Alan Ball
Able
America
Beauty
Develop
Everywhere
Exists
Eye
Floating
Garbage
Piece
Places
See
Strangest
Wind
You
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Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.
~ Alan Ball
Acknowledge
Aware
Companion
Death
Necessarily
Terrible
Terrible Thing
Thing
Us
Whether
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Death showed up in my life very early on, so I'm aware of it. If you look at most of the things I write there's a sort of contemplation of mortality - although 'True Blood' doesn't fall into that. Even though there's such a ridiculously high body count!
~ Alan Ball
Although
Aware
Blood
Body
Contemplation
Count
Death
Early
Even
Fall
High
I Write
Life
Look
Mortality
Most
My Life
Ridiculously
Sort
Things
Though
True
True Blood
Up
Very
Write
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
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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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
Because
Clock
Directing
Enjoyable
Exciting
People
Physically
Social
Ticking
Very
Working
You
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Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.
~ Alan Ball
Boring
Happy
Life
Our
Own
Relationships
Them
TV
Want
Watch
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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
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 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.
~ Alan Ball
Am
Because
Familiar
Feel
I Am
I Feel
I Feel Like
Industry
Like
Little
Many
Movies
Paradigm
Shows
Suspicious
TV
TV Shows
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I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?
~ Alan Ball
Ads
Advertising
Am
Because
Cannot
Culture
False
Gets
I Am
Interrupted
Just
Know
Phony
Show
Skip
Spoiled
Through
Watch
Where
You
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I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.
~ Alan Ball
Believe
Buddhist
Everybody
Everything
Forgiveness
I Believe
Possible
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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.
~ Alan Ball
Access
Believe
Certainly
Definitely
Humans
I Believe
Iceberg
Just
Kind
Necessarily
Perceive
Realm
Thing
Tip
Tip Of The Iceberg
Vampires
Werewolves
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I certainly feel fortunate in my career to have been able to continue to work in different mediums. I don't ever want to be the guy who gets really good at one thing and just does that over and over and over again.
~ Alan Ball
Able
Again
Been
Career
Certainly
Continue
Different
Does
Ever
Feel
Fortunate
Gets
Good
Guy
Just
Mediums
One Thing
Over
Really
Thing
Want
Who
Work
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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.
~ Alan Ball
Adjusted
Bore
Certainly
Characters
Conflict
Definitely
Face
Functional
Good
Life
Me
My Life
My Own
Myself
Own
People
See
Somebody
Strive
Surround
Those
Try
Way
Well
Who
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I don't believe in any particular definition of the afterlife, but I do believe we're spiritual creatures and more than our biology and that energy cannot be destroyed, but can change. I don't know what the afterlife is going to be, but I'm not afraid of it.
~ Alan Ball
Afraid
Afterlife
Any
Believe
Biology
Cannot
Change
Creatures
Definition
Destroyed
Energy
Going
Know
More
Our
Particular
Spiritual
Than
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