I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
ALAN BALLI think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
More Alan Ball Quotes
-
-
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 -
It’s also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?
ALAN BALL -
I felt pride, wonderful pride, when I was captain. It was an honour to take over from Labby. Anybody who has ever captained a big club, which Everton are, will tell you it’s a great honour.
ALAN BALL -
That’s the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever.
ALAN BALL -
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.
ALAN BALL -
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 -
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 -
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.
ALAN BALL -
I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
ALAN BALL -
Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can’t take it, and my heart is going to cave in.
ALAN BALL -
Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality we desire.
ALAN BALL -
I’m not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there’s going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what’s going to happen.
ALAN BALL -
Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
ALAN BALL -
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 -
I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
ALAN BALL