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" 'Sicario' was successful, but it was successful because Denis and the producers were, you know, they were very lean. It was very lean filmmaking. "

Taylor Sheridan

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" 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

" 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

" 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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" In 2005, I visited my home state of Texas, spending time on a ranch outside the town of Post. Then spending some time on a large ranch outside Archer City. I was taken by just how few young people I saw anywhere. "

Taylor Sheridan

" I had three attorneys dedicated solely to find the statistic of the number of missing Native American women on reservations. Any reservation, not just 'Wind River.' They don't exist. The federal government, which is responsible for the reservations, don't keep those stats. "

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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. "

Taylor Sheridan

" Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously. "

Taylor Sheridan

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

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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. "

Taylor Sheridan

" I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are. "

Taylor Sheridan

" 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. "

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" I learned a tremendous amount about dialogue because I suffered as an actor. "

Taylor Sheridan

" Honest communication is a rare thing. "

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" I work very hard to line up stereotypes and then smash them with a hammer. "

Taylor Sheridan

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

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

Taylor Sheridan

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

Taylor Sheridan

" 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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" 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

" 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. "

Taylor Sheridan

" 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. "

Taylor Sheridan

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

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" I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor. "

Taylor Sheridan

" 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

" 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. "

Taylor Sheridan

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

Taylor Sheridan

" Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively. "

Taylor Sheridan

" 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. "

Taylor Sheridan

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

Taylor Sheridan