Alan Ball

I think sexuality is a window into someone's soul. ”

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. ”

Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I TiVo everything and wait until the end of a season and watch it all over a weekend. For me that's a really satisfying experience, like reading a book. ”

Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful. ”

Ultimately, physical resemblance isn't as important as whether this person can bring this character to life in a way that's compelling and makes me care about what happens to them. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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? ”

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood. ”

We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men. ”