Taylor Sheridan Quotes
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I believe in the Constitution - and I believe in common sense.
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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.
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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 finished 'Hell or High Water' and started writing 'Wind River' literally the next day.
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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.
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Sometimes audiences want to see what we're doing to their world. It's our obligation sometimes to reflect it.
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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 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.
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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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I don't know if I've ever met anyone that's purely good or purely evil myself. I think most of us live with some varying degrees between the two.
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I'm not the guy to ask to write a sequel.
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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.
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While I feel it's important for films to examine our society, I don't particularly like watching the films that do it.
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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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I saved every script I'd ever worked on as an actor.
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To me, a purely good individual or purely bad individual, that's a comic book – that's a fantasy – and I don't do fantasy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage.