113 Quotes by Ryan Murphy

It's hard to think you're driving up and down the field every time, getting to the red zone, and you just can't get the ball in. It gets frustrating.

It's a Mike Nichols movie, which I thought was very serious and done in a very light, sleight-of-hand way, because I think comedy gets you into the show and makes it accessible,

I try not to worry about that stuff too much because you can't get caught up in that award show deal because then you start saying, 'Well, what does win awards? Maybe I should write (like) that' and that gets a little dangerous, ... Maybe the show is a little too controversial.

I'm like, 'No, it's not funny, but it has moments of comedy in it,'

The great thing about all these characters, ... is that all of them were meant to be one-episode pops.

and once that character came on, the ratings, like, doubled.

The fun of the show, ... is that it can get light and a little satirically amusing. The thing about the show is it shifts so abruptly . . . and that's what makes you unnerved. That's what I want people to feel. I want them to feel something.

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

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.