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" 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. "

Taylor Sheridan

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" 'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting. "

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" I wanted 'Hell or High Water' to feel like a road movie and an exciting, fun film - until it's not. "

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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 think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors. "

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" Honest communication is a rare thing. "

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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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" 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. "

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" I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job is because I couldn't have my family there - the family had to stay in town. I just wasn't willing to do that. "

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" One of the major issues that's constantly batted around Hollywood and the media is my industry's responsibility toward the portrayal of violence. There's the irony of the films that glorify it and the individuals taking positions against it. It's a very confusing, confounding place. "

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" 'Sicario' was successful, but it was successful because Denis and the producers were, you know, they were very lean. It was very lean filmmaking. "

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" To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it between its legs, it's this fascinating deconstruction of the myth of the West. "

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" I'm not the guy to ask to write a sequel. "

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" My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions. "

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" 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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" Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously. "

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" 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. "

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" Sometimes audiences want to see what we're doing to their world. It's our obligation sometimes to reflect it. "

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" As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure. "

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" I've been fortunate to work with partners like Weinstein and John and Art Linson in developing 'Yellowstone' and am grateful that it has found a home in the Paramount Network. The show is both timely and timeless. "

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" 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. "

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" How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same? "

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" My education - my Ph.D. in storytelling - comes from having worked on it, being a lover of film and watching them, from working with some great writers and some very good TV directors and then working with some who weren't. "

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" I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one. "

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" I think film cannot only teleport you to places you don't know, but it can help you see people you thought were one way and in fact are another. They can allow us to examine ourselves. "

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" You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there's a loss in a family. "

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" 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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" 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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" While I feel it's important for films to examine our society, I don't particularly like watching the films that do it. "

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