Ryan Murphy
Writer
1965-11-09
Quotes by Ryan Murphy
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All the big successes of my career have been ideas that, on paper, you think, 'Well nobody's going to go for this because that genre is so dead.'
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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.
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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.
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Tone is everything in TV.
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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.
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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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For me, the saddest thing in the world is always lost potential. That is always the most heartbreaking thing, when there's something left to be mined from a situation or a person that goes unexplored; that's a tragedy to me.
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I believe most people don't go into show business unless they've been majorly unloved as a child.
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I would much rather have watched Jill Clayburgh in 'An Unmarried Woman' than 'Star Wars.' Even though I saw that movie when I was 11, I related emotionally to being left and thrown in a trash can on the side of the road. Her damage - I got it. I didn't understand Han Solo at all.
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I don't think there's ever a winner in a feud. It's about emotional pain and an inability to conquer the pain.
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