Alan Ball Love Quotations

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.

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. That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering. For me, the thing that I love is that it's all about the present moment.

We love them no matter what they do,

We love these characters and we love them even when they're unlikable, ... We always see the pain and suffering behind the unlikable behavior.

I have such deep affection and love for these characters, I find it hard to be disappointed by them.