Top 73 Quotes by Alan Ball

About Alan Ball

These are some quotes by American author Alan Ball Director, who was born on May 13, 1957.

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.

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

Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

Alan Ball

I think it's very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way.

I think it's very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way.

Alan Ball

I love to direct! I get really jazzed by directing, but directing is not the same kind of personal expression, the same kind of personal intimate expression that writing is. Because when you're directing, you're basically managing, basically getting out of people doing their job, except when you see them going astray.

Alan Ball

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

Alan Ball

You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.

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

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

Alan Ball

You cannot hold a child accountable to the same standards that you hold an adult accountable to.

You cannot hold a child accountable to the same standards that you hold an adult accountable to.

Alan Ball

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.

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

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.

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

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