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" 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. "
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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Parenting
Ideas
Family
" 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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You
Know
New
" Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively. "
Taylor Sheridan
World
Explore
Mine
" 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. "
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Seen
Greatest
Days
" 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. "
Taylor Sheridan
People
Me
Faith
" Plot is just not my gift. I'm fascinated with complex characters, and that doesn't mix well with complex plots. And by the way, when the plot is simple, you can move one piece around and make it feel fresh. 'Hell or High Water''s a good example: I don't tell you why the brothers are robbing the bank. "
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You
Feel
Good
" I believe in the Constitution - and I believe in common sense. "
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Believe
Constitution
Common Sense
" People in Texas wear cowboy hats; they're good at keeping the sun off your neck and face. "
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Good
Hats
People
" 'Sicario' was successful, but it was successful because Denis and the producers were, you know, they were very lean. It was very lean filmmaking. "
Taylor Sheridan
Know
You
Successful
" I mean... directing is a holy, unpleasant experience, to be perfectly honest. "
Taylor Sheridan
Experience
Directing
Honest
" While I feel it's important for films to examine our society, I don't particularly like watching the films that do it. "
Taylor Sheridan
Watching
Society
Like
" 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. "
Taylor Sheridan
Camera
Moving
Give
" 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. "
Taylor Sheridan
Hard
Watch
Know
" 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. "
Taylor Sheridan
Say
Simple
Focus
" In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation. "
Taylor Sheridan
Poverty
Late
Apathy
" 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. "
Taylor Sheridan
You
Failure
Son
" 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. "
Taylor Sheridan
Individual
Bad
Book
" I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one. "
Taylor Sheridan
Respectful
Know
Good
" 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. "
Taylor Sheridan
You
People
Someone
" 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. "
Taylor Sheridan
American
Government
River
" I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different. "
Taylor Sheridan
Process
Acting
Quit
" I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth. "
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Much
Depth
Ridge
" We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks. "
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Someone
Voice
People
" 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. "
Taylor Sheridan
River
Peace
You
" I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.' "
Taylor Sheridan
You
Book
Camera
" I just lost interest in performing. "
Taylor Sheridan
Lost
Just
Interest
" I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line. "
Taylor Sheridan
Work
Choice
Think
" 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. "
Taylor Sheridan
Love
Mother
Intelligence
" As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure. "
Taylor Sheridan
Actor
Rigid
Television
" 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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Classy
Want
Technology