Horror allowed me to quickly switch gears.

I love visual stylists like Bob Fosse and Vincente Minnelli and Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger with The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffman.

Horror allowed me to quickly switch gears.

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 see the world in the same way because we have very different points of view, but we're both visual stylists.

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

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.

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