If you’re looking for Taylor Sheridan to campaign for Emmy votes, you’re watching the wrong show.
The Yellowstone mastermind made that clear during his performance on June 28th The Bill Simmons Podcast that prices have never been part of his game plan, even with Madison and Farmer lands on this year’s Emmy ballot.
“You’re not going to win any Emmys with me, but I’m not trying to win Emmys,” Sheridan said.
“That’s not my goal. My goal is to put somebody on their couch and move them, make them think, make them laugh, scare the s— out of them, excite them. That’s what I want to do, because that’s what I want from a show.”
Sheridan said he built his career by refusing to follow the Hollywood playbook.
“I knew it when I started writing [I wanted] simply not doing what everyone else was doing,” he said, arguing that too many storytellers were taking shortcuts instead of focusing on strong narratives.
His sharpest criticism, however, was reserved for studio executives, whom he claimed knew “nothing” about storytelling.
“Well, what do you know about developing story? You know nothing,” he said, adding that timid leaders often end up trying to control every creative decision.
That wouldn’t fly when he signed with Paramount.
“This is not a democracy. There is no committee,” Sheridan recalled telling the studio.
“You’re going to pay me, and you’re going to give me a lot of money, and I’m going to deliver you these shows.”
As for TV reviewers? Sheridan doesn’t lose sleep over their reviews.
“The critics and I… I don’t care what they think and it annoys them that I don’t care,” he said, before adding, “F— them, frankly.”
