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" You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there's a loss in a family. "

Taylor Sheridan

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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 think 'In The Heat Of The Night' was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it's actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era. "

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

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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. "

Taylor Sheridan

" 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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" As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a clear conscience. "

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

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

Taylor Sheridan

" 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. "

Taylor Sheridan

" 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 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. "

Taylor Sheridan

" 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. "

Taylor Sheridan

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

Taylor Sheridan

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

Taylor Sheridan

" 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

" 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 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

" 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. "

Taylor Sheridan

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

Taylor Sheridan

" We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks. "

Taylor Sheridan

" I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do. "

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'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.' "

Taylor Sheridan

" Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good. "

Taylor Sheridan

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Taylor Sheridan

" 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. "

Taylor Sheridan

" 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. "

Taylor Sheridan