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 More Quotes by Ryan Murphy More Quotes From Ryan Murphy I'm very black and white about what I like or don't like, and I've always been that way. Ryan Murphy black-and-white black white way I don't think there's ever a winner in a feud. It's about emotional pain and an inability to conquer the pain. Ryan Murphy think winner conquer pain I'm fascinated by the whole clown phobia thing because I personally don't have it. Ryan Murphy personally because clown whole I started off in this business in 1998, and I didn't fit in. There was no place for me, and I always felt like an oddball. Nobody really understood my work or what I wanted to do in my references. Ryan Murphy nobody me business work 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. Ryan Murphy think you hate people 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. Ryan Murphy side like home writing 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. Ryan Murphy maybe movies never you I've always been sort of, 'I love it,' or, 'I hate it,' and I think, as a result, I've always been a polarizing person. You either love me or you hate me. There's not a lot of 'Hmmm.' Ryan Murphy me you hate love I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents. Ryan Murphy parents difficult childhood emotional 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! Ryan Murphy singing mother remember father I'd never had a mentor in Hollywood. Men have always been in control of the business, and they usually mentor people who are like them - but two inches shorter. Ryan Murphy control business men people Just because you have a baby on your hip - or one on the way or two at home - doesn't mean you can't go after your dreams. Ryan Murphy dreams you your-dreams home I think everyone wants for their children a world that's better than the one they came up in. Ryan Murphy better think children world When I got my overall deal at Fox, I got amazing bosses in John Landgraf and Dana Walden and Peter Rice. For the first time ever, they said, 'Don't change who you are; be who you are. And write something you want to watch.' That thing was 'Glee,' and it took off from there. Ryan Murphy amazing you change time I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk. Ryan Murphy every-day feel day want I think things were definitely, they were definitely taken a little bit differently than what the question I was asked intended, i was asked a question about doping and swimming and I answered honestly. I do think there’s doping in swimming. Ryan Murphy It is a huge mental drain on me to hear I'm swimming in a race that's probably not clean, that is what it is. Ryan Murphy I got through it, it's really exciting to be going back to another Olympics. Ryan Murphy
