Taylor Sheridan Quotes

I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.

For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art.

In my teens, I fell in love with the movies.

I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.

I'm a big Turner Classic Movies fanatic - I was really addicted for a while.

I absolutely love genre movies. When I was a kid, I was really impacted by genre films and cult classics.

I love the kind of movies I watched when I was a kid. But, I also love telling great stories.

I love turning my daughter on to old movies.

When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.'

You would be surprised of films that people just don't see. You know what I mean? I'm always working and I'm a film buff but I'm an old school film buff.

I love film and I love sitcoms, and I was one of those kids that would just go to the movies on the weekend and spend my whole weekend watching all of the movies.

I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.

I don't care about Hollywood films. I'm not against Hollywood films, you know? Hollywood films were very good before, in the 1950s.

I didn't go to many movies. My mom would make a family outing and bring chicken in the theater. Smell up the whole place. The most impactful movies were 'Godfather II' and 'Scarface'. I loved the human complexity, and those movies are so well shot. Cinematic greatness. I really stopped going in my early twenties.

I grew up watching a lot of film.

I've probably spent a good year and half of my life watching movies. I love it. It was something I knew I'd be happy doing.

For me, cinema is very important. I grew up with television; then, as a teenager, you discover cinema.

I loved going to the movies, especially when I was a teenager in the seventies. How couldn't you in what was perhaps the greatest era of auteur cinema?

I lived within walking distance of Harvard Square, and that's where I discovered my love of cinema. I saw a lot of foreign and independent films there.

I always have directors who are somewhat frustrated because they'll reference a beautifully obscure film from the '50s or '60s or '70s, and I've not seen it.

I love watching old movies, and I read a lot of autobiographies.

Like all artists, I'm a complete cinephile; I see everything. I see past movies, present movies, indie movies, experimental movies.

My father always told me that story was first and foremost. We would watch not just his films but a lot of classic American films. My father was a great David Lean fan, and David Lean's one of my favorite directors. We would discuss films endlessly.

There is a host of directors - Sujoy Ghosh, Neeraj Pandey, Ashutosh Gowariker, Madhur Bhandarkar, Mani Ratnam and so on - who make some great cinema. I would like to work with them all.

I grew up watching 'Gigi.' My grandmother had it, and I watched it there.