At some point, you have an opportunity to not be a first-time filmmaker anymore. You can embrace the genre and show the world how you can tell stories on a bigger scale. — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
It's a great asset to you, on your first film, to bring some people with you from the television world because they understand the speed that you have to work with to get your grand ideas down. — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
The fun of directing for me, other than working with the actors, is trying to extract those ideas that you have in your head… — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
I love visual stylists like Bob Fosse and Vincente Minnelli and Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger with The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffman. — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
I'm really grateful to Ryan Murphy for so much because he's fearless. He's so confident. He has a very unusual and unique way of… — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
To me film school was film history because there weren't a lot of books out there that I had access to. — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
I just wanted to make movies, but I never though about, "How am I being perceived because of my culture or my skin?" — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
At some point, you have an opportunity to not be a first-time filmmaker anymore. You can embrace the genre and show the world how… — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
I still think that being thrown in a very competitive environment where you really have to see what you are made of - certainly… — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
NYU Film School was the way to learn about film, to be exposed to film, to go to repertory houses, to be exposed to… — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
There are the relationships you make. All of the friends I made in grad school are the closest ones that I have. — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
The Ryan Murphy television world has assistants who have become producers and writers and. If he trusts you and you have a unique way… — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image