Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

As a director who loves the camera you learn a lot.

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

The fun of directing for me, other than working with the actors, is trying to extract those ideas that you have in…

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

I love visual stylists like Bob Fosse and Vincente Minnelli and Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger with The Red Shoes and The…

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

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…

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

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

I just wanted to make movies, but I never though about, "How am I being perceived because of my culture or my…

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

At some point, you have an opportunity to not be a first-time filmmaker anymore. You can embrace the genre and show the…

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

I still think that being thrown in a very competitive environment where you really have to see what you are made of…

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

NYU Film School was the way to learn about film, to be exposed to film, to go to repertory houses, to be…

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

TV is all new to me because I came from features.

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

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

The Ryan Murphy television world has assistants who have become producers and writers and. If he trusts you and you have a…

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

I don't set out to do something weird, but if you see something a certain way and it's a little left of…

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

Horror allowed me to quickly switch gears.

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

I went out to Bali, and I cast all of these supporting roles. I love that stuff. I just love actors. And…

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

It becomes an extension of your imagination to make something tangible and concrete.

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

If someone already knows you from being in the trenches with you on this TV schedules, and then you have a little…

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

I started in the P.A. world and craft service and storyboard artist, with the eye on the prize of directing. When I…

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

If you can make the day, you can do whatever you want.

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

Musicals and horror films can be very non-verbal and very pure cinema with movement. The camera is justified in being a character.…

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

Ryan Murphy just gives new people a shot, and it takes a lot of confidence and generosity to do that.

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

Being exposed to the Ryan Murphy machine, it is very much a personal extension of him. So, if I can learn from…

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

I've been clawing my way to directing since I was a kid.

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

On some kind of unspoken, deep, deep level, I think we [with Ryan Murphy] have an aesthetic that we both understand or…

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

I'm a fan of musicals from great masters, and I was able to have an opportunity to express myself in musical numbers…

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon