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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Larry Kramer wisely realized so early on that to change the world, people have to know you. If they know you and see that we are all the same - that we all have normal hearts - that's the first step. I'm both amazed at the progress and amazed at how far we have to go. "

Change The World

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

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

" 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. "

" Tone is everything in TV. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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! "

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

" 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. "

" 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 feel like I grew up in such a big way in the past couple of years, in a way that I never thought I would. You can't be the enfant terrible when you have the enfant at home. "

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

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

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

Black And White

" 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. "

" I started off in this business in 1998, and I didn't fit in. There was no place for me, and I always felt like an oddball. Nobody really understood my work or what I wanted to do in my references. "

" 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. "