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.

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.

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

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.

Musicals and horror films can be very non-verbal and very pure cinema with movement. The camera is justified in being a character. It can really move and tell a story, and literally direct you to look here or there.

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.