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" As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure. "
Taylor Sheridan
Actor
Rigid
Television
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" 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. "
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" When I write a movie, I write it for me. "
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" 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. "
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" To me, a purely good individual or purely bad individual, that's a comic book - that's a fantasy - and I don't do fantasy. "
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" I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing. "
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" It's very hard for me to go to the movies because I know all the tricks, and I know everybody. I don't watch many at all. And the ones I do watch are generally much older films. "
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" In 2011, I was in Hollywood peddling 'Sicario' to constant and resounding 'no's. Texas was suffering the worst drought on record. Wildfires spread across West Texas, burning some 4 million acres and 3,000 homes. While the urban centers in Texas were experiencing an economic boom, West Texas was collapsing under the weight of drought and fires. "
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" Think about 'GoodFellas': It could be a textbook on how not to write a screenplay. It leans on voice-over at the beginning, then abandons it for a while, then the character just talks right into the camera at the end. That structure is so unusual that you don't have any sense of what's going to happen next. "
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Character
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End
" You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there's a loss in a family. "
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Family
Suffering
Loss
" I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three. "
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River
High
Hell
" You set something in modern-day Texas, which is so identifiable as the Old West, and everyone's wearing guns, so it looks like it's going to be, by default, partially considered a western. "
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Everyone
You
Texas
" Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with. "
Taylor Sheridan
Good
Good People
Good Things
" To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief. "
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Real
Film
Play
" The machine of awards season is very stressful. But this is the Oscars! It's your peers, your heroes, people you admire, the people who inspired you to get into this work in the first place. It's a pretty overwhelming feeling when you think about it. "
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You
People
Place
" I work very hard to line up stereotypes and then smash them with a hammer. "
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Work
Hammer
Hard
" I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one. "
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Respectful
Know
Good
" Sometimes audiences want to see what we're doing to their world. It's our obligation sometimes to reflect it. "
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See
Our
Sometimes
" 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. "
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Love
Strength
Think
" You've been entrusted with a lot of money and a lot of careers, and a lot of people put their faith in me, and every director goes through that every time. "
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People
Me
Faith
" My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions. "
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Answers
You
" I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies that celebrated the region of where I lived. "
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Where
Old
" Most of us don't confront pure anything. What our life does involve is a whole lot of 60/40 and 70/30. "
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Confront
Anything
Pure
" I spent a lot of time doing really unimportant work as an actor. It was important when I started writing that I obviously make it entertaining, or no one is going to go see it - but to really make you think, that is my goal. "
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Work
Goal
Think
" I just lost interest in performing. "
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Lost
Just
Interest
" I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it. "
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Flawed
Great
Human
" I thought of Jeff Bridges in 'Hell or High Water' and Ben Foster, and I kept trying very hard not to, because you're terrified you're going to write this thing that then feeds specifically to this one person that then won't do it. "
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Hell
Hard
Thought
" Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively. "
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World
Explore
Mine
" Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good. "
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Good
Anybody
Any
" With 'Wind River,' I became fascinated with the notion of how you overcome a tragedy - accepting it, making whatever peace you can with it - without ever knowing what really happened. "
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River
Peace
You