Taylor Sheridan Quotes

Taylor Sheridan

Profession : Actor

Birth : May 21, 1970

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'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

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

My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.

Taylor Sheridan

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.

Taylor Sheridan

I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job is because I couldn't have my family there - the family had to stay in town. I just wasn't willing to do that.

Taylor Sheridan

I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go back to the last place that felt like jazz to me.

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.

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 broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.

Taylor Sheridan

I'm a big believer in,'If anyone can understand my politics, I've failed.' If you can get a sense of which side of the fence I'm on, then I'm not doing a service. I'm preaching, and that's not my job.

Taylor Sheridan

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

Taylor Sheridan

If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.

Taylor Sheridan

'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

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

Taylor Sheridan

I just lost interest in performing.

Taylor Sheridan

I believe in the Constitution - and I believe in common sense.

Taylor Sheridan

I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.

Taylor Sheridan

People in Texas wear cowboy hats; they're good at keeping the sun off your neck and face.

Taylor Sheridan

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