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 have to work with to get your grand ideas down.

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

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 quite personal, and balance that out with features, then that would be the ultimate dream.

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.

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 still think that being thrown in a very competitive environment where you really have to see what you are made of - certainly when you come out of nowhere - was good for me.