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" I work very hard to line up stereotypes and then smash them with a hammer. "
Taylor Sheridan
Work
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Hard
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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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" Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose. "
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" I finished 'Hell or High Water' and started writing 'Wind River' literally the next day. "
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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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" As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure. "
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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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" 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 broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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Successful
" 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
" I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do. "
Taylor Sheridan
Dialogue
Through
Push
" 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
" 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
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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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You
Know
New
" 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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Hard
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Know
" I just lost interest in performing. "
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Lost
Just
Interest
" Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with. "
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Good Things
" 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. "
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Moving
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" 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. "
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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 mean... directing is a holy, unpleasant experience, to be perfectly honest. "
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Directing
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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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" I learned a tremendous amount about dialogue because I suffered as an actor. "
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Because
Dialogue
" 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 didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one. "
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" There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage. "
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