Are we overtly going after things that are political cases? No. In fact, I would like to do the opposite of that, i am interested in, at this point, presenting stories… that are uplifting and aspirational and that give you hope and give viewers hope.

Ryan Murphy

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

Ryan Murphy

nice dark thinking

And everybody has the motivation to be that killer.

Ryan Murphy

killers motivation

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

acceptance people thinking

Tone is everything in TV.

Ryan Murphy

tone tvs

I knew I wanted to work with Brad [Falchuk] and Ian [Brennan] again on something comedic, and we are having a blast writing SCREAM QUEENS. We hope to create a whole new genre - comedy-horror - and the idea is for every season to revolve around two female leads.

Ryan Murphy

queens writing ideas

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

flannels cotton hundred

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

Ryan Murphy

my-favorite growing-up stuff

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

growing-up new-york kids

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

Ryan Murphy

glee writing years

Originally, 'Popular' was going to be a movie.

Ryan Murphy

I love crispy, cool sheets.

Ryan Murphy

sheets

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

too-much parent school

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

Ryan Murphy

three young stories

I told Monica Lewinsky in 2018 .,' Nobody should tell your story but you, and The Real Story's kind of gross if they do,'.

Ryan Murphy

entertainment

Let's show Rep. King that the Queens are not having it.

Ryan Murphy

entertainment

They really kind of talked me off a ledge, and I was very struck by what great people they were and how strong they were and from that moment on I was like ‘I’m really sort of interested in the inner lives of these people.’ he was born with something that we did not know about… If they hadn’t showed up I think my son would have died.

Ryan Murphy

entertainment

I sort of felt for me… what I was interested in is we live in a really dark, cynical Trump era time right now, and for me I was looking for something that was a relief from that.

Ryan Murphy

entertainment

My experience with 9-1-1… my son, Ford, was 11 months old, and in the middle of the night he stopped breathing so we called 9-1-1, and they showed up and at two in the morning. There were four responders. They were calm and nurturing… and then they brought him back to life.

Ryan Murphy

entertainment

I never had a situation with anything I shot like this, the day we shot that the crew was crying, the actors were crying. It was very intense.

Ryan Murphy

entertainment

It feels sort of bizarre but I feel honored, my speech begins that I realized in January that I was not doing enough, that I could do more for women, and I could do more for women who had always supported me and mentored me.

Ryan Murphy

entertainment