Ryan Murphy Quotes

I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

Originality is dangerous.

If you don't take a risk then what's the point. We can't keep making films in the same space.

If you're afraid of failure or getting it wrong, you'll never truly innovate or disrupt the market.

There's always a risk if you don't do things the way you've done things before.

The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring.

Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project.

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

I guess I much prefer the path of the contrarian: the guy who goes against the grain a bit. The careers of the people who I admire deeply - like the Coen brothers and Soderbergh - don't repeat themselves, and they make radically different films at times, and I think that's wonderful.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

You've got to be picky in this business - if you're not, then I don't think you have the option of longevity. You've got to be choosy and try and do something that's outside of the box and dangerous. I love doing stuff that excites me, gives me that adrenalin rush.

I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.

You don't achieve anything by playing it safe.

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