Taylor Sheridan Quotes

I make movies I want to see.

Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think'.'

I always write the pieces I want to write.

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story.

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

I eventually want to write and direct and produce my own stuff.

I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.

I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.

I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.

I tell the stories that are of interest to me.

I'm currently trying to direct my own material.

'Juno' really changed things for me and I get a lot of screenplays come in now, but I like to self-generate and I like to kind of pursue my own ideas. And I think the more personal the better.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

I think the reason I wrote screenplays for nearly a decade was because it was my territory. I could stake that out.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's what directing is to me.

I just want to make good films on my own wherever I can.

I just write what I want to write.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.

As a writer of both novels and screenplays, I can say that screenwriting is a vastly rewarding creative life - if you fight hard enough to do it on your own terms. Whether I write books or not, my screenwriting life has been creatively rewarding and remains so.

When I sit down to write, I don't think, 'OK, what is the next David O. Russell film I can write, or what is Harvey Weinstein going to want to buy?' Or even, 'What are filmgoers going to want.' I try to think, tell a good story. Just do what you do.

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.