93 Quotes by Taylor Sheridan

If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. And then he will write you a letter, which is incredibly rare and incredibly classy. Unfortunately, I can't be that removed from technology.

We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks.

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

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

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.'

There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage.

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.

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

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.