Taylor Sheridan Quotes

Taylor Sheridan

Profession : Actor

Birth : May 21, 1970

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

Taylor Sheridan

Most of us don't confront pure anything. What our life does involve is a whole lot of 60/40 and 70/30.

Taylor Sheridan

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 mean... directing is a holy, unpleasant experience, to be perfectly honest.

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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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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.

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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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Part of our job as storytellers is to show people pockets of the world that they don't know. The more we understand, the more we don't judge.

Taylor Sheridan

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

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Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose.

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

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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.

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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.

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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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I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.

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I learned a tremendous amount about dialogue because I suffered as an actor.

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

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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.

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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

In 2011, I was in Hollywood peddling 'Sicario' to constant and resounding 'no's. Texas was suffering the worst drought on record. Wildfires spread across West Texas, burning some 4 million acres and 3,000 homes. While the urban centers in Texas were experiencing an economic boom, West Texas was collapsing under the weight of drought and fires.

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