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

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" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" I love crispy, cool sheets. "

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

" 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. "

" People think I'm just sort of this P. T. Barnum, razzle-dazzle guy. They think I go out of my way to be outlandish and theatrical at the expense of having emotions. They don't get that there's another side to me, and I keep trying to show that other side. "

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

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

" I remember I always felt much more safe standing up on a chair and singing in front of my mother than I was in front of my father! "

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

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

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

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

Black And White

" I think I have a pattern of nice and lovely and then dark and twisted. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The Hollywood thing is - like, it feels like the biggest thing in the world, and yet it's the smallest town. "

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

" I only wrote two fan letters in my life. One was to Bette Davis. And one was to Ron Palillo, who played Horshack on 'Welcome Back, Kotter.' And Ron did not write me back, but Bette Davis did. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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'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.' "