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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

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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. "

" 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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" 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. "

" I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain. "

" 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. "

" How does one endure in a place they shouldn't be condemned to live in? You could take that same question and apply it to any number of neighborhoods in any number of cities. "

" 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. "

" I mean... directing is a holy, unpleasant experience, to be perfectly honest. "

" 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. "

" 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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" I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved. "

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" Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good. "

" Every writer has written a spec. It's the first thing you write, and it basically stands as a means of, 'Here's an example of how I tell stories.' It's almost like a business card. "

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" Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think 'In The Heat Of The Night' was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it's actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era. "

" 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. "

" Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with. "

" How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same? "

" I'm not the guy to ask to write a sequel. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do. "

" Sometimes audiences want to see what we're doing to their world. It's our obligation sometimes to reflect it. "

" My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions. "

" You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there's a loss in a family. "

" I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors. "