A biography for Taylor Sheridanhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.”
“I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.”
“Honest communication is a rare thing.”
“I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.”
“Some of the most fascinating scenes in 'Unforgiven,' for me, is that scene with Gene Hackman where he's talking about the Duke of Death that Richard Harris played, and he's basically demolishing this myth of this man very unwesternly - not what you expect in a western.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.”
“I work very hard to line up stereotypes and then smash them with a hammer.”
“As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a clear conscience.”
“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.”
“I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one.”
“There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Sometimes audiences want to see what we're doing to their world. It's our obligation sometimes to reflect it.”
“You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there's a loss in a family.”
“I saved every script I'd ever worked on as an actor.”