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..

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

I went out to Bali, and I cast all of these supporting roles. I love that stuff. I just love actors. And then, Ryan Murphy asked me to direct second ….

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

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

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

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

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

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

NYU Film School was the way to learn about film, to be exposed to film, to go to repertory houses, to be exposed to New York and see films. I would g….

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

I was only driven to be the best and it was very disheartening sometimes that it took me so long to start getting my voice heard. That certainly star….

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

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 w….

I'm really grateful to Ryan Murphy for so much because he's fearless. He's so confident. He has a very unusual and unique way of seeing the world som….

On some kind of unspoken, deep, deep level, I think we [with Ryan Murphy] have an aesthetic that we both understand or connect to. It's not that we s….

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 hav….

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..

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

Being exposed to the Ryan Murphy machine, it is very much a personal extension of him. So, if I can learn from that and tell longer stories that are ….