Taylor Sheridan is not going back to Cali anytime soon.
The Landman creator, 56, got candid about his feelings about Los Angeles in a Sunday, June 28 interview on The Bill Simmons Podcast. When asked if he would return to the city for production of his shows, the writer-director made his stance clear.
“The only way you’re getting me back to Los Angeles is if it secedes from the union and I’m drafted into the Army to take it back,” Sheridan told host Bill Simmons.
“I love New York. That city’s way, way stronger than whatever political wind is blowing it in any direction, right? Whereas L.A. is built on sand.”
Elsewhere in the episode, Sheridan, who is known for his other hit series including Yellowstone, 1923, and The Madison, shared his thoughts on critics who accused him of under-developing Demi Moore’s character in the first season of Landman.
“When I met with Demi about that I said, ‘Here’s the thing: You’re going to be an extra in this show for seven episodes, and the critics are going to come after me. “I’m underutilizing [Moore], can’t write for women, all this nonsense,”‘ Sheridan said.
“The critics and me, I don’t care what they think, and it annoys the s— 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. I could have given them more episodes so they could have realized that flip, but I didn’t. I just sent them the first three. Because f— ’em, honestly.”
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The prolific showrunner also got real about his early conversations with Paramount executives.
“When I first started at Paramount, there was a huge development department,” said Sheridan, who signed a five-year overall production deal with NBCUniversal last year. Estimated to be within the $1 billion range, the deal will begin in 2029 according to a Deadline report.
“There were all these people whose job was to sit there and give me notes and tell me what to do and how to do it, and after four years, they got rid of that department. All those people got fired. Because they didn’t need ’em. They had no job. Because I wouldn’t return their calls. Because they don’t do what I do.”
Sheridan said he told execs that he isn’t focused on awards recognition.
“You’re not going to win no Emmys with me, but I’m not trying to win Emmys,” he said. “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.”
Last year, Sheridan launched SGS Studios, his own 450,000-square-foot film production studio in Fort Worth, Texas, to film his shows.
“SGS Studios isn’t just about sound stages or tax incentives — it’s about reclaiming the independence and grit that built this industry in the first place,” Sheridan said in an August 2025 statement to The Dallas Morning News.
“Texas offers something rare: the space to dream big, the freedom to build fast, and a community that still believes storytelling matters.”
