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" To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief. "
Taylor Sheridan
Real
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" We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks. "
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" 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. "
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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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" In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation. "
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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. "
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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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" I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one. "
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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've been fortunate to work with partners like Weinstein and John and Art Linson in developing 'Yellowstone' and am grateful that it has found a home in the Paramount Network. The show is both timely and timeless. "
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Art
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Home
" 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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Watching
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" 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. "
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First
You
Like
" I believe in the Constitution - and I believe in common sense. "
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" Josh Brolin is fascinating to watch because he is just so effortless. It's like watching a really gifted athlete run, and I just didn't have that. "
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Watching
Athlete
He
" '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
Parenting
Ideas
Family
" Most of us don't confront pure anything. What our life does involve is a whole lot of 60/40 and 70/30. "
Taylor Sheridan
Confront
Anything
Pure
" 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. "
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Try
Call
Find
" I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do. "
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Dialogue
Through
Push
" People in Texas wear cowboy hats; they're good at keeping the sun off your neck and face. "
Taylor Sheridan
Good
Hats
People
" 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. "
Taylor Sheridan
Say
Simple
Focus
" 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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You
Feel
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" Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously. "
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Think
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" When I write a movie, I write it for me. "
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Write
I Write
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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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You
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" I spent a lot of time doing really unimportant work as an actor. It was important when I started writing that I obviously make it entertaining, or no one is going to go see it - but to really make you think, that is my goal. "
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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. "
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River
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" Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively. "
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World
Explore
Mine
" 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. "
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You
Failure
Son
" I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth. "
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Much
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Ridge
" 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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" 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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