Taylor Sheridan has built a television empire thanks to Yellowstone. But despite his many successful TV shows, the creative isn't interested in accolades. Sheridan says he doesn't care about Emmys.
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Sheridan spoke about the awards on The Bill Simmons Podcast.
"You're not going to win no Emmys with me, but I'm not trying to win Emmys," he told host Bill Simmons. "That's not my goal. My goal is to sit 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."
"I knew when I started writing [I wanted] to simply not do what everyone else was doing," he continued. "What everyone else was doing was taking shortcuts, essentially breaking all the very basic fundamental rules of storytelling, because they couldn't figure out their story."
Despite not caring about the Emmys, Sheridan and his shows, The Madison and Landman, are nominated this year. Sheridan says that storytelling is a rare commodity these days with studio executives unfamiliar with the creative process.
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"Well, what do you know about developing a story? You know nothing," Sheridan said. "So they get terrified, panicked that the audience won't get it because they actually have no storytellers."
Sheridan refuses to play by the rules of Hollywood.
"This is not a democracy. There's no committee," he continued. "You're going to pay me, and you're going to give me a bunch of money, and I'm going to deliver you these shows."
For that reason, he doesn't care about his critics, using his casting of Demi Moore on Landman as an example.
"The critics are going to come after me. I'm underutilizing [Moore], can't write for women, all this nonsense. Then I'm going to kill your husband and you're going to have to run the oil company," he said. "The critics and me... I don't care what they think, and it annoys the shit out of them that I don't care."
"I'll be the first to tell you that there are things that I do that rage bait them a bit, and this is one of them," Sheridan continued. "F--- 'em, honestly."
