Taylor Sheridan

“Hollywood will tell you what you’re supposed to do if you listen. If you’re banging your head against the wall for 20 years trying to be an actor, maybe you shouldn’t be an actor. But the first thing I ever wrote [the pilot for Mayor of Kingstown in 2011] got me meetings at every major network, at every agency. I had multiple people trying to buy it.”

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Taylor Sheridan recounted his transition from acting to screenwriting in a 2023 cover story for The Hollywood Reporter.

“I could have decided at any point, ‘I’m going to go get a full-time job, and I’m going to give up this dream,’”

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Taylor Sheridan reflected on refusing to abandon his entertainment career for a full-time job.

“I lived in my car. Sometimes I’d go to Ojai, just somewhere where I could safely sleep. I did that for six months,”

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Taylor Sheridan recalled living and sleeping in his car for six months.

“When I lived in Los Angeles, everything I saw was the same and I didn’t learn anything in my day-to-day life,”

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Taylor Sheridan contrasted his life in Los Angeles with his creative routine in Texas.

“chose to sleep in my car”

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Taylor Sheridan noted his determination to pursue his dream despite facing homelessness.

“And I chose to sleep in my car over that.”

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Taylor Sheridan explained his decision to sleep in his car rather than give up on his dreams.

“I was homeless twice,”

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Taylor Sheridan recalled his past financial struggles as an actor living in Los Angeles.

“When I sold that first screenplay, I bought a little house on an acre on a river in Wyoming,”

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Taylor Sheridan described buying property in Wyoming after selling his first screenplay.

“Here, I get to experience so much. I heard 25 iconic pieces of dialogue today. Most of my great lines I heard someone else say, or some version of it. I’m banking story all the time.”

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Taylor Sheridan described how living on his ranch provides inspiration and dialogue for his stories.

“So now I'm trivializing and fictionalizing something where real people work, and they raise their families there, and I could never do that to them,”

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Sheridan explained why he wouldn't want to fictionalize the real ranch's workers.

“I would never fictionalize that ranch. People thought that that was going to be a thing, but I would never do that.”

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Sheridan explained he would never fictionalize the real-life 6666 Ranch.

“I've actually got on my computer all the scenes of Jimmy at the 6666 pulled out and strung together, and it makes its own perfect little movie,”

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Sheridan described having footage of Jimmy Hurdstrom's scenes at the 6666 Ranch.

“There's never going to be one,”

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Sheridan confirmed that the 6666 spin-off is not happening.

“I could never do that to the cowboys that dedicated themselves, and everybody that works on that ranch. I'm very protective of the Sixes, and it's a big responsibility to be the person who has to protect that ranch, so I have to be very, very careful with it.”

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Sheridan spoke about his sense of responsibility to protect the 6666 Ranch and its workers.