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.

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 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 started with television, but it was never because of where I came from, it was because people saw something in me.

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

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

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

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