Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Quotes

United States, Film Director
November 6, 1972

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (sometimes Alfonso Gómez-Rejón) is an American film and television director. His television program credits include several episodes of Glee and several episodes of American Horror Story. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing For a Miniseries for American Horror Story: Coven. He is most known for his second feature film Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, for Indian Paintbrush.

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

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- Way
- Kid
- Directing
I don't set out to do something weird, but if you see something a certain way and it's a little left of center, and you can realize it, that's a real thrill.

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- See
- Realize
- Thrill

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.

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- Work
- Ideas
- Speed
I'm a fan of musicals from great masters, and I was able to have an opportunity to express myself in musical numbers with Glee.

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- Fan
- Express
- Musicals
I just wanted to make movies, but I never though about, "How am I being perceived because of my culture or my skin?"

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- Culture
- Skin
- Perceived
If you can make the day, you can do whatever you want.

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- Want
- Day
- Make
It becomes an extension of your imagination to make something tangible and concrete.

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The fun of directing for me, other than working with the actors, is trying to extract those ideas that you have in your head and make them real.

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- Real
- Ideas
- Directing

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.

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- Stories
- Filmmaker
- Scale
As a fine artist I was drawn to composition and technique. I would count the cuts.

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