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… — 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… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and… — 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
When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play. I could write dialogue, but I just sort of… — 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
I think most writers, in a sense, have this desire to disappear, to be absolutely anonymous, to be removed in some way:… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“You don't have to take it out on my typewrite ya' know. It's not the machine's fault that you can't write. It's… — 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
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
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
My first job was with the Burns Detective Agency. They sent me over to the East River to guard coal barges during… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work. — 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
Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the… — 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
