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" I'm fascinated by the whole clown phobia thing because I personally don't have it. "

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

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

" Well, I'm from Indiana. So to me when I was a little kid growing up, Cincinnati was the glamorous New York of it all. "

" Joan Crawford and Bette Davis are larger than life. They just are. They sucked all the oxygen out of a room: they're icons; they loom large in our imaginations. But the truth of the matter is both women were diminutive. "

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

" Tone is everything in TV. "

" 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. "

" One of the unique things about 'American Horror Story' is, it's very respectful to actors. Actors in many cases don't want to be tied down to a seven-year contract. So my deal with the cast is: you're free after every year: you can come back, or you cannot come back. "

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

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

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

" 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 think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through. "

" When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the stuff that Norman Lear did. "

" When I got my overall deal at Fox, I got amazing bosses in John Landgraf and Dana Walden and Peter Rice. For the first time ever, they said, 'Don't change who you are; be who you are. And write something you want to watch.' That thing was 'Glee,' and it took off from there. "

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

" I would much rather have watched Jill Clayburgh in 'An Unmarried Woman' than 'Star Wars.' Even though I saw that movie when I was 11, I related emotionally to being left and thrown in a trash can on the side of the road. Her damage - I got it. I didn't understand Han Solo at all. "

" 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. "

" I came of age during AIDS and the terror of that and the sadness and the death and the overwhelming despair. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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