Ryan Murphy Quotations

I didn't want it to feel like a slasher movie, ... I wanted it to be a little more kabuki and delicate and weird.

It could be anybody. You won't find out quickly.

I think we live in a world where the middle is accepted as sometimes the best, and I don't agree with that. When I watch a movie or another television show, I want to feel something . . . I would say that every episode is like a Grimm's fairy tale. It has a moral at the end.

Our motto this week just has to be 'Finish. When we get in the red zone, we have to score points. If we score points, it's a completely different ballgame.

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.

This show could become bigger in scope and in its storytelling, ... When things become bigger, you need more voices to fill them out.

We're the blessed ones who get to say we're doing what we dream of doing.

What this show says is that real change happens internally, that maybe you should book a consultation with a shrink instead of a plastic surgeon.

Even before I wanted to do something about plastic surgeons, I wanted to do something about the idea of how people transform themselves.

I've never gotten a note (that said) 'Could you make somebody more likable?' ... In fact, it's always the opposite. 'Can you make them more complex?' You're allowed to write anti-heroes.

Some people say if you're picked high you're already on the team, but that's not true, ... You have to come here and work hard for it and hopefully on opening night, you get to put on the game sweater.

It was sort of modeled after 'The Scream' a little bit ... I also liked the Dresden quality of it, that he was making a comment on artificial beauty and the facade,

It was a very brutal scene, so repercussions of that are equally as brutal,

It's hard to think you're driving up and down the field every time, getting to the red zone, and you just can't get the ball in. It gets frustrating.

It's a Mike Nichols movie, which I thought was very serious and done in a very light, sleight-of-hand way, because I think comedy gets you into the show and makes it accessible,

I try not to worry about that stuff too much because you can't get caught up in that award show deal because then you start saying, 'Well, what does win awards? Maybe I should write (like) that' and that gets a little dangerous, ... Maybe the show is a little too controversial.

I'm like, 'No, it's not funny, but it has moments of comedy in it,'

The great thing about all these characters, ... is that all of them were meant to be one-episode pops.

and once that character came on, the ratings, like, doubled.

The fun of the show, ... is that it can get light and a little satirically amusing. The thing about the show is it shifts so abruptly . . . and that's what makes you unnerved. That's what I want people to feel. I want them to feel something.

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

I knew I wanted to work with Brad [Falchuk] and Ian [Brennan] again on something comedic, and we are having a blast writing SCREAM QUEENS. We hope to create a whole new genre - comedy-horror - and the idea is for every season to revolve around two female leads.

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.

Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc.

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 love crispy, cool sheets.

I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.

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

Tone is everything in TV.

Well, I'm from Indiana. So to me when I was a little kid growing up, Cincinnati was the glamorous New York of it all.

When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the stuff that Norman Lear did.

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.

And everybody has the motivation to be that killer.