Horror allowed me to quickly switch gears.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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