American - Writer | November 9, 1965 -
I was an altar boy, with a very strict father. And movies were always my escape.
Ryan Murphy
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I do work with a lot of women in my company, and I write a lot of roles for women over 40. I think, in 'Feud' alone, we have 15 roles for women over 40, which I'm very proud about.
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The greatest thing that you have when you're a showrunner is this opportunity to create worlds.
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What I'm interested in doing now is to go and give voices that are not being heard a platform and to sort of bring people into people's homes that you think you may hate or despise.
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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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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.
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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.
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I'm fascinated by the whole clown phobia thing because I personally don't have it.
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In television and the movie business, the people who are promoted and the people who are mentored always look like the white guys.
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I find that women are much more comfortable showing their emotion and inviting you into their emotional landscape.
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I'm not interested in anything but emotionally driven stories; that's why almost all of my work is exclusively anchored by women.
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I love actors, but I really love actresses, and I really love actresses whose work touched and informed my coming-up years.
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