A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into… — 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
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I've always felt a great affinity with music. I've felt myself to be more of a musician than anything else, though I'm… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as… — 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
