To write, you have to know how to act and know about directing. To act, you also need to know how to write and direct.

- Tate Taylor

There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information out of …

- Tate Taylor

I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I w…

- Tate Taylor

I love going back in time, and the only time you can really do that is on a movie set.

- Tate Taylor

After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.

- Tate Taylor

In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a sto…

- Tate Taylor

I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards ch…

- Tate Taylor

Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic.…

- Tate Taylor

I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I c…

- Tate Taylor