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" I just lost interest in performing. "
Taylor Sheridan
Lost
Just
Interest
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" 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. "
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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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" I'm not the guy to ask to write a sequel. "
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" 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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" I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do. "
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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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" As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" I learned a tremendous amount about dialogue because I suffered as an actor. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" Part of our job as storytellers is to show people pockets of the world that they don't know. The more we understand, the more we don't judge. "
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" Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.' "
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" Some of the most fascinating scenes in 'Unforgiven,' for me, is that scene with Gene Hackman where he's talking about the Duke of Death that Richard Harris played, and he's basically demolishing this myth of this man very unwesternly - not what you expect in a western. "
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" Josh Brolin is fascinating to watch because he is just so effortless. It's like watching a really gifted athlete run, and I just didn't have that. "
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" I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing. "
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" 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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" '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 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. "
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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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" 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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