The Hollywood thing is – like, it feels like the biggest thing in the world, and yet it’s the smallest town. Ryan Murphy Read Quote
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.’ Ryan Murphy Read Quote
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. Ryan Murphy Read Quote
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. Ryan Murphy Read Quote
When I started, you couldn’t do anything. A gay person trying to write a gay character in 1998 – it was so difficult. Ryan Murphy Read Quote
I love actors, but I really love actresses, and I really love actresses whose work touched and informed my coming-up years. Ryan Murphy Read Quote
I’m not interested in anything but emotionally driven stories; that’s why almost all of my work is exclusively anchored by women. Ryan Murphy Read Quote
In television and the movie business, the people who are promoted and the people who are mentored always look like the white guys. Ryan Murphy Read Quote
I’m fascinated by the whole clown phobia thing because I personally don’t have it. Ryan Murphy Read Quote
For me, growing up in Indiana with cornfields and churches, I was always very intrigued by the Academy Awards – they were a big event. That was the one night of the year when all of the glittering movie stars got together, and I used to love that night because, as a child, it was a way to dream for me. Ryan Murphy Read Quote
