If you’re looking for Taylor Sheridan to campaign for Emmy votes, you’re watching the wrong show.
He yellow stone The mastermind made this clear during his June 28 appearance on The Bill Simmons Podcast that awards have never been part of their 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 them,” 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 the Hollywood playbook.
“I knew it when I started writing. [I wanted] just not doing what everyone else was doing,” he said, arguing that many storytellers were taking shortcuts instead of focusing on strong narratives.
His harshest criticism, however, was reserved for studio executives, who, according to him, know “nothing” about storytelling.
“Well, what do you know about story development? You know nothing,” he said, adding that fearful executives often end up trying to control every creative decision.
That wasn’t going to work when he signed with Paramount.
“This is not a democracy. There is no committee,” Sheridan recalls telling the studio.
“You’re going to pay me, you’re going to give me a lot of money and I’m going to offer you these shows.”
As for TV critics? Sheridan does not lose sleep over his criticism.
“The critics and I… I don’t care what they think, and it bothers them to no end that I don’t care,” he said before adding, “Fuck them, honestly.”
