Taylor Sheridan Quotes

Taylor Sheridan

Profession : Actor

Birth : May 21, 1970

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

I wanted 'Hell or High Water' to feel like a road movie and an exciting, fun film - until it's not.

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

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

Taylor Sheridan

I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

Taylor Sheridan

Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'

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

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

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.

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

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

Taylor Sheridan

I can recognize a good actor. I can recognize someone that can convey emotion and that has the essence and not get lost in the minutia of, 'Well, that person's got red hair, and so does the other.' Some of the decisions in casting that seem so important at the time, until you get on set and you're starting to shoot.

Taylor Sheridan

Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.

Taylor Sheridan

'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

Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good.

Taylor Sheridan

To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.

Taylor Sheridan

Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.

Taylor Sheridan

One of the major issues that's constantly batted around Hollywood and the media is my industry's responsibility toward the portrayal of violence. There's the irony of the films that glorify it and the individuals taking positions against it. It's a very confusing, confounding place.

Taylor Sheridan

Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.

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