If you’re looking for Taylor Sheridan to campaign for Emmy votes, you’re watching the wrong show.
THE Yellow stone The mastermind made this clear during his June 28 appearance on The Bill Simmons Podcast that awards were never part of his game plan, even with The Madison And Landman landing 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 sit someone on their couch and move them, make them think, make them laugh, scare 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 Hollywood’s rules.
“I knew when I started writing [I wanted] just not to do what everyone else was doing,” he said, arguing that too many storytellers were taking shortcuts instead of focusing on strong narratives.
His harshest criticism, however, was reserved for studio executives, who he said knew “nothing” about storytelling.
“Well, what do you know about developing a story? You don’t know anything about it,” he said, adding that fearful leaders often end up trying to control every creative decision.
It wasn’t going to work out when he signed with Paramount.
“It’s not a democracy. There’s 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 these shows to you.”
As for TV critics? Sheridan isn’t losing sleep over their criticism.
“The critics and I…I don’t care what they think, and it pisses them off that I don’t care,” he said before adding, “F— ’em, honestly.”
