Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Quotes

The fun of directing for me, other than working with the actors, is trying to extract those ideas that you have in your head and make them real.

If someone already knows you from being in the trenches with you on this TV schedules, and then you have a little bit more time, it's a treat for them, as well, because they can give you more.

As a fine artist I was drawn to composition and technique. I would count the cuts.

The Ryan Murphy television world has assistants who have become producers and writers and. If he trusts you and you have a unique way of seeing his world, he nurtures you.

As a director who loves the camera you learn a lot.

There are the relationships you make. All of the friends I made in grad school are the closest ones that I have.

I love visual stylists like Bob Fosse and Vincente Minnelli and Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger with The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffman.

I still think that being thrown in a very competitive environment where you really have to see what you are made of - certainly when you come out of nowhere - was good for me.

I'm a fan of musicals from great masters, and I was able to have an opportunity to express myself in musical numbers with Glee.

Horror allowed me to quickly switch gears.

It's a great asset to you, on your first film, to bring some people with you from the television world because they understand the speed that you have to work with to get your grand ideas down.

At some point, you have an opportunity to not be a first-time filmmaker anymore. You can embrace the genre and show the world how you can tell stories on a bigger scale.

To me film school was film history because there weren't a lot of books out there that I had access to.

It becomes an extension of your imagination to make something tangible and concrete.

I don't set out to do something weird, but if you see something a certain way and it's a little left of center, and you can realize it, that's a real thrill.

Ryan Murphy just gives new people a shot, and it takes a lot of confidence and generosity to do that.

TV is all new to me because I came from features.

If you can make the day, you can do whatever you want.

I just wanted to make movies, but I never though about, "How am I being perceived because of my culture or my skin?"

I've been clawing my way to directing since I was a kid.