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" As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a clear conscience. "
You
Clear
Choices
" As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure. "
Actor
Rigid
Television
" Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with. "
Good
Good People
Good Things
" Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well. "
You
People
Someone
" Every writer has written a spec. It's the first thing you write, and it basically stands as a means of, 'Here's an example of how I tell stories.' It's almost like a business card. "
First
You
Like
" For me, the greatest thing a movie can do is rivet you while you're watching but also give you something to chew on for days and weeks after you've seen it. "
Seen
Greatest
Days
" Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that. "
Love
Mother
Intelligence
" Honest communication is a rare thing. "
Thing
Communication
Honest
" How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same? "
Trying
Kid
Same
" How does one endure in a place they shouldn't be condemned to live in? You could take that same question and apply it to any number of neighborhoods in any number of cities. "
Live
Endure
You
" I believe in the Constitution - and I believe in common sense. "
Believe
Constitution
Common Sense
" I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs. "
Long
Time
Lot
" I can recognize a good actor. I can recognize someone that can convey emotion and that has the essence and not get lost in the minutia of, 'Well, that person's got red hair, and so does the other.' Some of the decisions in casting that seem so important at the time, until you get on set and you're starting to shoot. "
Good
Time
Decisions
" I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one. "
Respectful
Know
Good
" I don't know if I've ever met anyone that's purely good or purely evil myself. I think most of us live with some varying degrees between the two. "
Evil
Live
Myself
" I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go back to the last place that felt like jazz to me. "
Ride
Jazz
Me
" I don't write tracking shots in my screenplays or any camera directions, but I do try to give a sense of how the action is moving. "
Camera
Moving
Give
" I finished 'Hell or High Water' and started writing 'Wind River' literally the next day. "
Wind
Day
Hell
" If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path. "
You
Know
New
" If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. And then he will write you a letter, which is incredibly rare and incredibly classy. Unfortunately, I can't be that removed from technology. "
Classy
Want
Technology
" I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor. "
You
Failure
Son
" I had three attorneys dedicated solely to find the statistic of the number of missing Native American women on reservations. Any reservation, not just 'Wind River.' They don't exist. The federal government, which is responsible for the reservations, don't keep those stats. "
American
Government
River
" I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do. "
Dialogue
Through
Push
" I just lost interest in performing. "
Lost
Just
Interest
" I learned a tremendous amount about dialogue because I suffered as an actor. "
Learned
Because
Dialogue
" I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it. "
Flawed
Great
Human
" I like to describe 'Yellowstone' is 'The Great Gatsby' on the largest ranch in Montana. Then it's really a study of the changing of the West. "
Like
Changing
Study
" I look for absurdly simple plots so that I can simply focus on the characters. Having an understanding of what dialogue's easy to say and hard to say - I think that that's helpful, too. "
Say
Simple
Focus
" I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain. "
Love
Strength
Think
" I'm a big believer in,'If anyone can understand my politics, I've failed.' If you can get a sense of which side of the fence I'm on, then I'm not doing a service. I'm preaching, and that's not my job. "
You
Side
Service
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