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" All the big successes of my career have been ideas that, on paper, you think, 'Well nobody's going to go for this because that genre is so dead.' "
Career
Think
You
" All the things I have done at one point or another have fallen out of fashion, and there's nothing better than trying to bring something back to life. "
Done
Fashion
Life
" As a showrunner, you can never be a 'maybe.' When I do movies, there is a lot of, 'Maybe' and, 'Let's investigate that.' But for TV, it has to be yes or no. "
TV
You
Maybe
" At the end of the day, a divorce is a divorce, and a break-up is a break-up. They are essentially small matters of the heart. They are human stories. "
Day
Heart
Small
" Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc. "
Writing
Sometimes
Road
" For me, growing up in Indiana with cornfields and churches, I was always very intrigued by the Academy Awards - they were a big event. That was the one night of the year when all of the glittering movie stars got together, and I used to love that night because, as a child, it was a way to dream for me. "
Love
Me
Night
" For me, the saddest thing in the world is always lost potential. That is always the most heartbreaking thing, when there's something left to be mined from a situation or a person that goes unexplored; that's a tragedy to me. "
Potential
Situation
World
" Here's the thing: When you tell somebody, 'I love you. I have always loved your work, and I want to show people a different side of you,' it's sort of an interesting thing that in my case, I've been very lucky, where they're like, 'OK.' "
People
Work
I Love You
" I actually think actors both are drawn to playing real-life historical people and are terrified. "
Think
People
Historical
" I am not going to do anything unless I am afraid of it. "
I Am
Going
Anything
" I believe most people don't go into show business unless they've been majorly unloved as a child. "
People
Go
Child
" I came of age during AIDS and the terror of that and the sadness and the death and the overwhelming despair. "
Age
AIDS
Despair
" I'd never had a mentor in Hollywood. Men have always been in control of the business, and they usually mentor people who are like them - but two inches shorter. "
Men
Control
Business
" I don't think there's ever a winner in a feud. It's about emotional pain and an inability to conquer the pain. "
Conquer
Pain
Think
" I do work with a lot of women in my company, and I write a lot of roles for women over 40. I think, in 'Feud' alone, we have 15 roles for women over 40, which I'm very proud about. "
Alone
Work
Proud
" I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk. "
Every Day
Day
Feel
" I feel like I grew up in such a big way in the past couple of years, in a way that I never thought I would. You can't be the enfant terrible when you have the enfant at home. "
You
Way
Thought
" I find that women are much more comfortable showing their emotion and inviting you into their emotional landscape. "
Find
Landscape
You
" I formed this thing called the Half Foundation, and what I tried to do is quantify hiring practices in Hollywood. Half the population is women, so half of the storytellers should be women. Fifty percent of all the directors in my company are women, and it will forever be that way. "
Foundation
Women
Company
" If you look at 'American Horror Story' or 'Crime Story,' these are visceral, action-packed, sometimes bloody episodes of television. They're not 'feminine.' They're not about sexy women sitting around looking beautiful, drinking lattes. These episodes are calling cards to show companies like Marvel, 'Look, women can do these kind of movies.' "
Sexy
Story
Women
" I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents. "
Emotional
Childhood
Difficult
" I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship. "
School
Too Much
Me
" I lean into fear because I feel like that excites me as an artist. "
Feel
Like
Me
" I'll ask the writers' room who they voted for Emmy awards, but I'll never ask who they voted for president. "
Who
Ask
Awards
" I love actors, but I really love actresses, and I really love actresses whose work touched and informed my coming-up years. "
Years
Love
Informed
" I love crispy, cool sheets. "
Sheets
Cool
Love
" I loved musicals, and I loved Barbra Streisand, and I loved Louis Malle. My tastes were very bizarre, but the thing they all had in common is that they took me out of my life and made me feel something. "
Loved
Feel
Life
" I love 'Girls' on HBO because it's brave and cool. "
Love
I Love
HBO
" I love Larry Kramer's advocacy, and I love him as a person, and I think young people need to see that story. "
Think
Young
Love
" I love Olivia De Havilland. She is forever a lady. "
She
Lady
Love
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