Sam Shepard Quotes

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• I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help.
• There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross…
• There's gonna be a general lack of toast in the neighborhood this morning.
• When you consider all the writers who never even had a machine. Who would have given an eyeball for a good typewriter. Any typewriter. All…
• I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.
• The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into…
• I still haven't gotten over this thing of walking down the street and somebody recognizing you because you've been in a movie. There's this illusion…
• Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs…
• Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of…
• I wanted to write a play about double nature ... one that wouldn't be symbolic or metaphorical or any of that stuff. I just wanted…
• Keep away from fantasy. Shake off the image,
• Everyone wants a piece of land. It's the only sure investment. It can never depreciate like a car or a washing machine. Land will double…
• Words are tools of imagery in motion,
• We're being sold a brand new idea of patriotism. It never occurred to me that patriotism had to be advertised. Patriotism is something you deeply…
• Ideas emerge from plays, not the other way around.
• Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.
• [Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.
• In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The purpose of it,…
• I've heard writers talk about "discovering a voice," but for me that wasn't a problem. There were so many voices that I didn't know where…
• I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.

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