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I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.Collection: Taylor
I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.Collection: Taylor
I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives.Collection: Taylor
Most of us don't confront pure anything. What our life does involve is a whole lot of 60/40 and 70/30.Collection: Taylor
With 'Wind River,' I became fascinated with the notion of how you overcome a tragedy - accepting it, making whatever peace you can with it - without ever knowing what really happened.Collection: Taylor
I mean... directing is a holy, unpleasant experience, to be perfectly honest.Collection: Taylor
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.Collection: Taylor
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.Collection: Taylor
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.Collection: Taylor
The machine of awards season is very stressful. But this is the Oscars! It's your peers, your heroes, people you admire, the people who inspired you to get into this work in the first place. It's a pretty overwhelming feeling when you think about it.Collection: Taylor
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.Collection: Taylor
I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.Collection: Taylor
Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose.Collection: Taylor
You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there's a loss in a family.Collection: Taylor
In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.Collection: Taylor
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.Collection: Taylor
Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.Collection: Taylor
The movies I make - the goal isn't a mass audience. They're not expensive films. So the attempt is to reach a much more limited audience - one would say an audience that enjoys films that challenge them emotionally and intellectually.Collection: Taylor
I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.Collection: Taylor
I learned a tremendous amount about dialogue because I suffered as an actor.Collection: Taylor
I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.Collection: Taylor
I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.Collection: Taylor
Josh Brolin is fascinating to watch because he is just so effortless. It's like watching a really gifted athlete run, and I just didn't have that.Collection: Taylor
In 2005, I visited my home state of Texas, spending time on a ranch outside the town of Post. Then spending some time on a large ranch outside Archer City. I was taken by just how few young people I saw anywhere.Collection: Taylor
In 2011, I was in Hollywood peddling 'Sicario' to constant and resounding 'no's. Texas was suffering the worst drought on record. Wildfires spread across West Texas, burning some 4 million acres and 3,000 homes. While the urban centers in Texas were experiencing an economic boom, West Texas was collapsing under the weight of drought and fires.Collection: Taylor
I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.Collection: Taylor
While I feel it's important for films to examine our society, I don't particularly like watching the films that do it.Collection: Taylor
My wife was pregnant, and I was doing the math, and I was realizing that I couldn't be living in a two-bedroom apartment in Hollywood for the rest of my days. I didn't want to raise my kid there.Collection: Taylor
I don't know if I've ever met anyone that's purely good or purely evil myself. I think most of us live with some varying degrees between the two.Collection: Taylor
To me, a purely good individual or purely bad individual, that's a comic book - that's a fantasy - and I don't do fantasy.Collection: Taylor
I spent a lot of time doing really unimportant work as an actor. It was important when I started writing that I obviously make it entertaining, or no one is going to go see it - but to really make you think, that is my goal.Collection: Taylor
I finished 'Hell or High Water' and started writing 'Wind River' literally the next day.Collection: Taylor
I spent most of my time as an actor in television, so directors in television - it's such a machine that's already in place that I don't think you notice the direction as much on the set.Collection: Taylor
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.Collection: Taylor
I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.Collection: Taylor
I saved every script I'd ever worked on as an actor.Collection: Taylor