Screenwriting 101: Taylor Sheridan

“I just wrote things I wanted to go see. Things that mattered to me. I like to wrap a socially aware film in a genre. I love playing with the idea of what we call genre films. Taking the genre and turning it on its ear, and turning it on its ear again.

I don’t think of it [Hell or High Water] as a western, even though I was wildly influenced by westerns. Is it a bank heist movie? Sure. Is it a buddy road flick? Sure. Is is a dark family drama? Yeah. Is it a morality play? It’s all those.”

— Taylor Sheridan

From Written By, December /January 2017