I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; all it does is… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
People talk about the 1960s in a nostalgic way, but to me it was terrifying. People were getting assassinated. There was Vietnam.… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
People are starved for a way of life - they're hunting for a way to be or to act toward the world. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I like cars. I like travel. I like the idea of people breaking down and I'm the only one who can help… — 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
