A biography for Ryan Murphyhasn’t been written yet.
“I don't think there's ever a winner in a feud. It's about emotional pain and an inability to conquer the pain.”
“I love Olivia De Havilland. She is forever a lady.”
“I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.”
“One thing I always do is just tell actors that I'm as afraid as they are, because I can sense that, and I feel it, too.”
“I remember I always felt much more safe standing up on a chair and singing in front of my mother than I was in front of my father!”
“I find that women are much more comfortable showing their emotion and inviting you into their emotional landscape.”
“When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the stuff that Norman Lear did.”
“I wanted to create a culture that allowed my children to see the world differently, if only from a strictly visual perspective: to have a child see a room where half of the people are women and minorities is so powerful. I think everyone wants for their children a world that's better than the one they came up in.”
“Part of being an artist is being able to write about the world you live in and the times that you've been a part of.”
“People think I'm just sort of this P. T. Barnum, razzle-dazzle guy. They think I go out of my way to be outlandish and theatrical at the expense of having emotions. They don't get that there's another side to me, and I keep trying to show that other side.”
“You've not felt the pain of rejection until a television show based on your own life is canceled.”
“I love actors, but I really love actresses, and I really love actresses whose work touched and informed my coming-up years.”
“I think the great thing about a television set is that it can be turned on and off, and you don't have to watch it if you think it's going to be something that you're not going to like or learn from.”
“It's interesting when women direct. The work is better. They ask more people to participate.”
“Sometimes in entertainment, when people have done the Academy Awards - like, for example, in 'The Bodyguard' - I just didn't believe it; it didn't feel authentic.”
“I feel like I grew up in such a big way in the past couple of years, in a way that I never thought I would. You can't be the enfant terrible when you have the enfant at home.”
“I love Sarah Jessica Parker; I've worked with her. I think she's amazing... She's a great producer and has a great business acumen.”
“I've always felt I've related to women deeply because of being gay and feeling like there was always somebody trying to oppress me, to keep me down, to put me in my place.”
“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.”
“Here's the thing: When you tell somebody, 'I love you. I have always loved your work, and I want to show people a different side of you,' it's sort of an interesting thing that in my case, I've been very lucky, where they're like, 'OK.'”