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

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.

Horror allowed me to quickly switch gears.

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

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.

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.

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.