“I am not going to do anything unless I am afraid of it.” — Ryan Murphy

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

I lean into fear because I feel like that excites me as an artist.

When I talk to young people, I always tell them the biggest lesson I learned was that you shouldn't care about the outcome. If it fails, it fails. Every failure will groom you for your next big reward.

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