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" I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing. "
Taylor Sheridan
Bad
Been
Much
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" I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three. "
Taylor Sheridan
River
High
Hell
" 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. "
Taylor Sheridan
Love
Strength
Think
" 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
" 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
" If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. And then he will write you a letter, which is incredibly rare and incredibly classy. Unfortunately, I can't be that removed from technology. "
Taylor Sheridan
Classy
Want
Technology
" Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival. "
Taylor Sheridan
Been
Someone
Hard
" 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. "
Taylor Sheridan
Think
People
Know
" 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. "
Taylor Sheridan
First
You
Like
" 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
" 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
" Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively. "
Taylor Sheridan
World
Explore
Mine
" I work very hard to line up stereotypes and then smash them with a hammer. "
Taylor Sheridan
Work
Hammer
Hard
" 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
" You've been entrusted with a lot of money and a lot of careers, and a lot of people put their faith in me, and every director goes through that every time. "
Taylor Sheridan
People
Me
Faith
" 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. "
Taylor Sheridan
Love
Mother
Intelligence
" My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions. "
Taylor Sheridan
Ask
Answers
You
" 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
" I learned a tremendous amount about dialogue because I suffered as an actor. "
Taylor Sheridan
Learned
Because
Dialogue
" I just lost interest in performing. "
Taylor Sheridan
Lost
Just
Interest
" 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'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
" 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
" 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
" Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do. "
Taylor Sheridan
Me
Think
Important
" I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do. "
Taylor Sheridan
Dialogue
Through
Push
" I'm not the guy to ask to write a sequel. "
Taylor Sheridan
Write
Guy
Sequel
" I finished 'Hell or High Water' and started writing 'Wind River' literally the next day. "
Taylor Sheridan
Wind
Day
Hell
" 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
" 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
" 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