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" People in Texas wear cowboy hats; they're good at keeping the sun off your neck and face. "

Taylor Sheridan

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" I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies that celebrated the region of where I lived. "

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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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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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" I wanted 'Hell or High Water' to feel like a road movie and an exciting, fun film - until it's not. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good. "

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" When I write a movie, I write it for me. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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" One of the major issues that's constantly batted around Hollywood and the media is my industry's responsibility toward the portrayal of violence. There's the irony of the films that glorify it and the individuals taking positions against it. It's a very confusing, confounding place. "

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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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