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" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

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

" I think everyone wants for their children a world that's better than the one they came up in. "

" I love Olivia De Havilland. She is forever a lady. "

" You've not felt the pain of rejection until a television show based on your own life is canceled. "

" I think that the work that Bette Davis and Joan Crawford did was truly extraordinary, and that's their legacy. Not the other petty stuff. "

" 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'm very black and white about what I like or don't like, and I've always been that way. "

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" I lean into fear because I feel like that excites me as an artist. "

" Yeah, at home it's all moonbeams and puppy-dog tails, so I guess I do have a darker side - and I like writing about it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Originally, 'Popular' was going to be a movie. "

" When I was starting out in Hollywood, everything was such a battle. "

" I believe most people don't go into show business unless they've been majorly unloved as a child. "

" I'm not interested in anything but emotionally driven stories; that's why almost all of my work is exclusively anchored by women. "

" With all of my work, it always takes a while for people to get it. "

" I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day. "

" I love crispy, cool sheets. "

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

" I love Sarah Jessica Parker; I've worked with her. I think she's amazing... She's a great producer and has a great business acumen. "

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

" I wanted to create a culture that allowed my children to see the world differently, if only from a strictly visual perspective: to have a child see a room where half of the people are women and minorities is so powerful. I think everyone wants for their children a world that's better than the one they came up in. "

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

" 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. "

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