Ryan Murphy Quotes

The message is risk, really risk. Be yourself. Create.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

Don't hold back in your writing. Take risks. Go ahead and tackle that crazy idea that you think will never fly, because that may be the one that makes you stand out from the crowd. Keep pushing the envelope.

I think comics do need permission to fail. I think comics do need permission to go up and try stuff.

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?

Be brave enough to create.

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

I'm an artist, and I like the risk - I'm not in it for the sure things.

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

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

You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.

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

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

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

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail

The thing I'm most proud of about - not all of our movies, but a lot of our movies - is that you might love 'em, you might hate 'em, but most of the time, they're trying to be different or trying new things, which I think is really important.

What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but try it.

You have to be slightly uncomfortable with what you're doing, and you have to be able to try to find moments of newness.

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

No art ever came out of not risking your neck.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.

Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby.

To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'