Why Taylor Sheridan Is Past the Point Of Compromising

There are many who feel that Taylor Sheridan‘s writing style denies writers their chance to grab their own bread in shows he’s overseeing. From the beginning of his writing days, Sheridan has been unshakable when it comes to pivoting from the direction or vision he sees for his scripts. In short, he wants his scripts to be done his way with little or no input from any other. He may be old-fashioned, but he’s gotten very successful with it.

If he couldn’t compromise during the days he had less than a thousand dollars in his bank account, he’s not going to compromise now that he’s worth over two hundred million dollars.

At first – with the many shows he’s had to take on to earn that $200 million payout he got from Paramount Global – he thought to compromise and have a writers room working with a pilot and plot he’s provided for them, but even that didn’t work out.

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To Taylor Sheridan, what he has to offer the world is something nobody else can. If he’s being cocky, at least he’s proven it with his string of massively successful shows.

“My stories have a very simple plot that is driven by the characters as opposed to characters driven by a plot — the antithesis of the way television is normally modeled,” Sheridan told The Hollywood Reporter during a cover story interview. “I’m really interested in the dirty of the relationships in literally every scene. But when you hire a room that may not be motivated by those same qualities — and a writer always wants to take ownership of something they’re writing — and I give this directive and they’re not feeling it, then they’re going to come up with their own qualities. So for me, writers rooms, they haven’t worked.”

After what he feels was a poor performance by those he entrusted “Tulsa King” and the upcoming “Lioness” (which stars Zoe Saldaña, Morgan Freeman and Nicole Kidman) to, he’s done letting anybody push his shows in any direction he never intended.

“I spent the first 37 years of my life compromising,” Sheridan said. “When I quit acting, I decided that I am going to tell my stories my way, period. If you don’t want me to tell them, fine. Give them back and I’ll find someone who does — or I won’t, and then I’ll read them in some freaking dinner theater. But I won’t compromise. There is no compromising.”

What Taylor Sheridan Feels About Compromising On Budget

When it comes to compromising due to lack of budget, Sheridan relents, but only a little.

“There is compromising on things like budget,” he added, but then again maybe not. “You write a thing and it costs what it costs. I will not change a script to meet a budget. You read the scene [in his Yellowstone prequel 1883] where the wagons go across the river when you decided to green light it. So don’t pitch me an idea where we see them before the river and after the river. That’s not what I do. You read it, you had every chance to say no.”

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