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" 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. "

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" I was an altar boy, with a very strict father. And movies were always my escape. "

" I think John Landgraf sees things in the same way I do. We see eye to eye on a lot. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" I am not going to do anything unless I am afraid of it. "

" What I'm interested in doing now is to go and give voices that are not being heard a platform and to sort of bring people into people's homes that you think you may hate or despise. "

" Part of being an artist is being able to write about the world you live in and the times that you've been a part of. "

" You know, I'm very particular about my sheets. They have to be one hundred percent cotton, with a high thread count. Only cotton. No flannel. "

" I've gotten death threats, yes. I have. I think anytime you shine a spotlight on homosexuality or minorities and you try and say they are as normal or as worthy as acceptance as others, the people who are on the fringe don't like that and they will come after you. And they have come after me. "

" I love Larry Kramer's advocacy, and I love him as a person, and I think young people need to see that story. "

" I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents. "

" I've always felt I've related to women deeply because of being gay and feeling like there was always somebody trying to oppress me, to keep me down, to put me in my place. "

" One thing I always do is just tell actors that I'm as afraid as they are, because I can sense that, and I feel it, too. "

" It's interesting when women direct. The work is better. They ask more people to participate. "

" Tone is everything in TV. "

" I love 'Girls' on HBO because it's brave and cool. "

" 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.' "

" I think the great thing about a television set is that it can be turned on and off, and you don't have to watch it if you think it's going to be something that you're not going to like or learn from. "

" 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. "

" When I started, you couldn't do anything. A gay person trying to write a gay character in 1998 - it was so difficult. "

" Just because you have a baby on your hip - or one on the way or two at home - doesn't mean you can't go after your dreams. "

" I love actors, but I really love actresses, and I really love actresses whose work touched and informed my coming-up years. "

" I actually think actors both are drawn to playing real-life historical people and are terrified. "

" I've always been sort of, 'I love it,' or, 'I hate it,' and I think, as a result, I've always been a polarizing person. You either love me or you hate me. There's not a lot of 'Hmmm.' "

" The only way to get through the life I had was just to have a big head of steam and determination. "

" In television and the movie business, the people who are promoted and the people who are mentored always look like the white guys. "

" I'm passionate about actors, and I'm passionate about showing actors in different lights. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes in entertainment, when people have done the Academy Awards - like, for example, in 'The Bodyguard' - I just didn't believe it; it didn't feel authentic. "