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Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.


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TAYLOR SHERIDAN I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies tha...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one.
TAYLOR SHERIDAN You know that saying, 'You broke it, you bought it'? With horses, if you don't make sure...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Think about 'GoodFellas': It could be a textbook on how not to write a screenplay. It leans ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclu...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audien...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I've been fortunate to work with partners like Weinstein and John and Art Linson in developing &...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Plot is just not my gift. I'm fascinated with complex characters, and that doesn't mix well ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and in...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I think film cannot only teleport you to places you don't know, but it can help you see people y...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple cra...
TAYLOR SCHILLING Whatever it is that I am working on is what I become obsessed with.
TAYLOR SCHILLING In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a...
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