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" It's a weird thing, my shows. I don't know how to describe it, but I feel because I go about the casting process so slowly that it does feel like an instant family. "

Ryan Murphy

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Process

Weird

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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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Love

Night

" You can't be the enfant terrible when you have the enfant at home. "

" 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. "

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Place

Business

" I'm passionate about actors, and I'm passionate about showing actors in different lights. "

" 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

Writing

" When I started, you couldn't do anything. A gay person trying to write a gay character in 1998 - it was so difficult. "

" When I was starting out in Hollywood, everything was such a battle. "

" I love actors, but I really love actresses, and I really love actresses whose work touched and informed my coming-up years. "

" I think everyone wants for their children a world that's better than the one they came up in. "

" One of the unique things about 'American Horror Story' is, it's very respectful to actors. Actors in many cases don't want to be tied down to a seven-year contract. So my deal with the cast is: you're free after every year: you can come back, or you cannot come back. "

" I was an altar boy, with a very strict father. And movies were always my escape. "

" I am not going to do anything unless I am afraid of it. "

" I actually think actors both are drawn to playing real-life historical people and are terrified. "

" I'll ask the writers' room who they voted for Emmy awards, but I'll never ask who they voted for president. "

" I formed this thing called the Half Foundation, and what I tried to do is quantify hiring practices in Hollywood. Half the population is women, so half of the storytellers should be women. Fifty percent of all the directors in my company are women, and it will forever be that way. "

" I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk. "

" 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. "

" The Hollywood thing is - like, it feels like the biggest thing in the world, and yet it's the smallest town. "

Ryan Murphy

Town

World

" I love 'Girls' on HBO because it's brave and cool. "

" 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. "

" Part of being an artist is being able to write about the world you live in and the times that you've been a part of. "

" 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

New York

Growing

" 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.' "

" 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

You

Maybe

" I'm not interested in anything but emotionally driven stories; that's why almost all of my work is exclusively anchored by women. "

" With all of my work, it always takes a while for people to get it. "