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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

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Taylor Sheridan

Finished

Hell

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Taylor Sheridan

Judge

Job

" 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

Faith

" As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure. "

" 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. "