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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

The man was absolutely beautiful. Vampire. Warrior. Whatever Shan Quesada was all man.

Love is a mental madness.

If you don’t hurt others it doesn’t mean you love them but it simply reveals that you are loving.

I want to make great songs.

Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.

I often think it can often be very difficult for comedians to revisit the same gag. I think Russell's a bit more than a comedian.

I do not deal with subtleties; I am only a lawyer.

Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.