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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. "
Taylor Sheridan
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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. "
Taylor Sheridan
Art
Grateful
Home
" 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
" As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a clear conscience. "
Taylor Sheridan
You
Clear
Choices
" 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
" Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.' "
Taylor Sheridan
Follow
Finished
Hell
" 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
" In 2011, I was in Hollywood peddling 'Sicario' to constant and resounding 'no's. Texas was suffering the worst drought on record. Wildfires spread across West Texas, burning some 4 million acres and 3,000 homes. While the urban centers in Texas were experiencing an economic boom, West Texas was collapsing under the weight of drought and fires. "
Taylor Sheridan
West
Texas
Suffering
" People in Texas wear cowboy hats; they're good at keeping the sun off your neck and face. "
Taylor Sheridan
Good
Hats
People
" 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 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. "
Taylor Sheridan
Hell
Hard
Thought
" 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. "
Taylor Sheridan
Violence
Responsibility
Place
" I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors. "
Taylor Sheridan
Film
Marriage
Think
" 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
" My wife was pregnant, and I was doing the math, and I was realizing that I couldn't be living in a two-bedroom apartment in Hollywood for the rest of my days. I didn't want to raise my kid there. "
Taylor Sheridan
Living
Doing
Kid
" Most of us don't confront pure anything. What our life does involve is a whole lot of 60/40 and 70/30. "
Taylor Sheridan
Confront
Anything
Pure
" I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing. "
Taylor Sheridan
Bad
Been
Much
" There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage. "
Taylor Sheridan
Evil
How
Pure
" You know that saying, 'You broke it, you bought it'? With horses, if you don't make sure it's a good fit... they tend to break you. "
Taylor Sheridan
Break
Broke
Good
" 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
" 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
" My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions. "
Taylor Sheridan
Ask
Answers
You
" 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
" 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 spent most of my time as an actor in television, so directors in television - it's such a machine that's already in place that I don't think you notice the direction as much on the set. "
Taylor Sheridan
Direction
You
Time
" 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
" '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. "
Taylor Sheridan
Parenting
Ideas
Family
" 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 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. "
Taylor Sheridan
Like
Changing
Study
" 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