On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
On every film, there are producers all over the place, and everyone's got to have an opinion. I think the screenplay is… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about writing for theatre is you can go anywhere you want with the language. There are no limits. With… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
With acting, you can find a way to make it interesting for yourself, if nobody else - even on big-budget films. But… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
You can write 16 plays and not make as much money as you did doing one movie. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Character is an essential tendency. It can be covered up, it can be messed with, it can be screwed around with, but it can't… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Farm country -- you know, hay, horses, cattle. It's the ideal situation for me. I like the physical endeavors that go with the farm… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly enough. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“Those are the most monotonous fuckin' crickets I ever heard in my life.” — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
