I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, ‘Come on, who am I kidding?’ And I have to say, it was the single biggest step I took toward emotional well-being, to stop feeling like I had to hide who I am. Alan Ball Read Quote
The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don’t have the leisure of time in television. Alan Ball Read Quote
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. Alan Ball Read Quote
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. Alan Ball Read Quote
Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do. Alan Ball Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Life is infinitely complex, and I feel like we live in a culture that really seems to want to simplify it into sound bites and bromides, and that does not work. Alan Ball Read Quote
I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It’s an incredibly nourishing process; it’s probably the closest I come to having a religion. Alan Ball Read Quote
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 Read Quote
