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 Read Quote
There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood. Alan Ball Read Quote
I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I’m a Buddhist. Alan Ball Read Quote
There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn’t get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on. Alan Ball Read Quote
I guess in America we’re so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I’m sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them. Alan Ball Read Quote
It’s a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you’re going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn’t what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life. Alan Ball Read Quote
I’m not saying that being gay is what defines me, but at the same time, if you feel like you have to hide it, then it becomes what defines you. You keep it hidden, and the secret becomes you. Alan Ball Read Quote
I need to feel like the work I’m doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated. Alan Ball Read Quote
I’m from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region. Alan Ball Read Quote
