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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. "

Taylor Sheridan

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" I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors. "

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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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" 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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" I finished 'Hell or High Water' and started writing 'Wind River' literally the next day. "

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

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

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" The movies I make - the goal isn't a mass audience. They're not expensive films. So the attempt is to reach a much more limited audience - one would say an audience that enjoys films that challenge them emotionally and intellectually. "

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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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" '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. "

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" I just lost interest in performing. "

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

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" Some of the most fascinating scenes in 'Unforgiven,' for me, is that scene with Gene Hackman where he's talking about the Duke of Death that Richard Harris played, and he's basically demolishing this myth of this man very unwesternly - not what you expect in a western. "

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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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" I'm not the guy to ask to write a sequel. "

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" 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. "

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" You know that saying, 'You broke it, you bought it'? With horses, if you don't make sure it's a good fit... they tend to break you. "

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" Honest communication is a rare thing. "

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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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