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" '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

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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go back to the last place that felt like jazz to me. "

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" 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. "

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" I believe in the Constitution - and I believe in common sense. "

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" Think about 'GoodFellas': It could be a textbook on how not to write a screenplay. It leans on voice-over at the beginning, then abandons it for a while, then the character just talks right into the camera at the end. That structure is so unusual that you don't have any sense of what's going to happen next. "

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" I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth. "

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" As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a clear conscience. "

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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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" Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.' "

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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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" I saved every script I'd ever worked on as an actor. "

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

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

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" I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it. "

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" 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. "

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

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" While I feel it's important for films to examine our society, I don't particularly like watching the films that do it. "

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" 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. "

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

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" To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it between its legs, it's this fascinating deconstruction of the myth of the West. "

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

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" I can recognize a good actor. I can recognize someone that can convey emotion and that has the essence and not get lost in the minutia of, 'Well, that person's got red hair, and so does the other.' Some of the decisions in casting that seem so important at the time, until you get on set and you're starting to shoot. "

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" I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.' "

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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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