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" I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth. "
Taylor Sheridan
Much
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Ridge
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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. "
Taylor Sheridan
Work
Goal
Think
" As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure. "
Taylor Sheridan
Actor
Rigid
Television
" To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief. "
Taylor Sheridan
Real
Film
Play
" The movies I make - the goal isn't a mass audience. They're not expensive films. So the attempt is to reach a much more limited audience - one would say an audience that enjoys films that challenge them emotionally and intellectually. "
Taylor Sheridan
Say
Challenge
Goal
" I believe in the Constitution - and I believe in common sense. "
Taylor Sheridan
Believe
Constitution
Common Sense
" 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. "
Taylor Sheridan
Evil
Live
Myself
" How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same? "
Taylor Sheridan
Trying
Kid
Same
" 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. "
Taylor Sheridan
Ride
Jazz
Me
" Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.' "
Taylor Sheridan
Follow
Finished
Hell
" 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. "
Taylor Sheridan
Art
Grateful
Home
" 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
Seen
Greatest
Days
" I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with. "
Taylor Sheridan
Actor
Begin
Fairly
" 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. "
Taylor Sheridan
Character
Think
End
" 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. "
Taylor Sheridan
Best
Fact
Myth
" Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively. "
Taylor Sheridan
World
Explore
Mine
" 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. "
Taylor Sheridan
Talking
Man
Expect
" 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
" I finished 'Hell or High Water' and started writing 'Wind River' literally the next day. "
Taylor Sheridan
Wind
Day
Hell
" 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
" 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. "
Taylor Sheridan
Great
Storytelling
Good
" I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are. "
Taylor Sheridan
Try
Call
Find
" 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
" We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks. "
Taylor Sheridan
Someone
Voice
People
" In 2005, I visited my home state of Texas, spending time on a ranch outside the town of Post. Then spending some time on a large ranch outside Archer City. I was taken by just how few young people I saw anywhere. "
Taylor Sheridan
People
Home
City
" 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. "
Taylor Sheridan
Stay
Family
Head
" 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 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. "
Taylor Sheridan
Old Movies
Where
Old
" You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there's a loss in a family. "
Taylor Sheridan
Family
Suffering
Loss
" 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. "
Taylor Sheridan
Everyone
You
Texas