Taylor Sheridan Quotes

I've always had a massive fascination with the modern day cowboys. Modern day outlaws or going against the system, and that's always been very intriguing to me.

I think that the Western went away for a while because part of its function was that it used to be America's action film.

The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today.

America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you had to pack a gun and defend yourself.

I thought it might be fun to set my books in Nevada, which is in the West and still pretty Wild. You can still gamble, carry a loaded pistol, and go into a silver-mine, and they still have saloons with swinging doors, boardwalks, and horses.

When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.

I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western.

My history was the Western. I grew up with the Lone Ranger, the Cisco Kid and Bonanza. I felt as much a child of the West as someone born in Montana or Wyoming.

I would have loved to have a role in the HBO series 'Deadwood.' It was Shakespeare in the Old West.

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

'The Sisters Brothers' started out as a little bit of dialogue between these two men who became Eli and Charlie Sisters.

American diplomats want blood. They watched too many Westerns in their formative years.

The West was extraordinarily violent in the mid-19th century, and it continued to be more homicidal than the rest of the United States until the 1930s.

I loved Westerns for different reasons as an adult. It is not only our only native brand of storytelling - the only one that's not influenced by Europeans and not something that's done better by the French - but I also love the sensuality of the Western. The sights, sounds, and smell of a Western are very exciting.

I do love Westerns. But, in a way, traditional Westerns, for me, have been hard to love viscerally and personally.

Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know... It's just good entertainment.

I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.

Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions - love, hate, and anger - thrown in. We'll have westerns films as long as the cameras keep turning. The fascination that the Old West has will never die. And as long as people want to pay money to see me act, I'll keep on making westerns until the day I die.

I'm really glad Westerns have had a revival. Hopefully our little resurgence will last a while.

I think Westerns are always so great for clearing out the clutter and the ambiguities, and getting right to the broad strokes of that kind of situation.

The horses forced into the chuckwagon races die of heart attacks, broken necks, broken legs, and other injuries. It'd be easy to get off on western tradition without this bloody spectacle. Dude, it's the Old West, not ancient Rome!

In most Westerns, you know, people are shooting off guns all the time until you don't even notice it anymore.

The Westerns have probably affected me more than any one thing, Western-related material. I love Westerns.

I want to play someone like Billy the Kid.

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.