Taylor Sheridan Quotes

Taylor Sheridan

Profession : Actor

Birth : May 21, 1970

If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. And then he will write you a letter, which is incredibly rare and incredibly classy. Unfortunately, I can't be that removed from technology.

Taylor Sheridan

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

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

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

My education - my Ph.D. in storytelling - comes from having worked on it, being a lover of film and watching them, from working with some great writers and some very good TV directors and then working with some who weren't.

Taylor Sheridan

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.

Taylor Sheridan

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.

Taylor Sheridan

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.

Taylor Sheridan

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.

Taylor Sheridan

I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.

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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 didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one.

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.

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

Honest communication is a rare thing.

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

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 let characters be human and flawed and relatable.

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

There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage.

Taylor Sheridan