Ryan Murphy Quotes

United States, Writer
November 30, 1965

Ryan Patrick Murphy is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. Murphy is best known for creating/co-creating/producing a number of successful television series, including the FX medical drama Nip/Tuck (2003–10), the Fox musical comedy-drama Glee (2009–15), the FX anthology series American Horror Story (2011–present), American Crime Story (2016–present), and Feud (2017) and the Fox procedural drama 9-1-1 (2018–present).

Also known as Screenwriter, Director, Producer

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.

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

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- Growing
- Stuff
- Favorite

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

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- Pattern
- Twisted
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.

Ryan Murphy
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.

Ryan Murphy
I love crispy, cool sheets.

Ryan Murphy
- Cool
- Sheets
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.

Ryan Murphy
- Writing
- Darker
Originally, 'Popular' was going to be a movie.

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- Movie
- Popular

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

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

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

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- Sometimes
- Excited
- About
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.

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

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I've always been sort of, 'I love it,' or, 'I hate it,' and I think, as a result, I've always been a polarizing person. You either love me or you hate me. There's not a lot of 'Hmmm.'

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- Person
- Either
- Polarizing

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.

Ryan Murphy
Tone is everything in TV.

Ryan Murphy
- Everything