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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 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 not the guy to ask to write a sequel. "

" I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different. "

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

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

Taylor Sheridan

Water

High

" 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. "

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

Taylor Sheridan

Finished

Hell

" 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. "

" Honest communication is a rare thing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with. "

" '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. "

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

" To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief. "

" I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one. "

" 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

Changing

Study

" 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. "

" Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good. "

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

" 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. "

Taylor Sheridan

Ride

Jazz

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

" 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. "

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

" 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

" 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

" It's very hard for me to go to the movies because I know all the tricks, and I know everybody. I don't watch many at all. And the ones I do watch are generally much older films. "