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. Alan Ball Read Quote
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. Alan Ball Read Quote
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 Read Quote
When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires. Alan Ball Read Quote
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. Alan Ball Read Quote
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. Alan Ball Read Quote
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 Read Quote
You know, I’m gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family. Alan Ball Read Quote
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? Alan Ball Read Quote
I’m 53. I don’t care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed. Alan Ball Read Quote
