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" The greatest thing that you have when you're a showrunner is this opportunity to create worlds. "

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" 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 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. "

" I find that women are much more comfortable showing their emotion and inviting you into their emotional landscape. "

" It's a weird thing, my shows. I don't know how to describe it, but I feel because I go about the casting process so slowly that it does feel like an instant family. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I love crispy, cool sheets. "

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

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

" I don't think there's ever a winner in a feud. It's about emotional pain and an inability to conquer the pain. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

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

" I was very much raised by my grandmother, who actually was Bette Davis - looked like her, acted like her, talked like her. Probably, it was just out of my love and affection for my grandmother that I was interested in Bette. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "