First Quote by Sam Shepard Download Open image “When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play.” — Sam Shepard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare First How Play Started Structure
When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play. I could write dialogue, but I just sort of failed beyond… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I think… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I think I started out trying to be very objective about the flow of the play. — James Rado Copy Share Image
The combination of what's written and just being in the moment is always the best way. You gotta start out with something solid and… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing… — Ellen Burstyn Copy Share Image
In playwriting, you've got to be able to write dialogue. And if you write enough of it and let it flow enough, you'll probably… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The whole thing about writing a play is that it's all about controlling the flow of information traveling from the stage to the audience.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself. — Ben Schnetzer Copy Share Image
I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what it's about… — Wallace Shawn 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
Life is going to hit you some line drives, and sometimes you'll have to think fast. However, it's better to think first than to… — John Bytheway Copy Share Image
You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you… — Amy Landecker Copy Share Image
I watched the movie 'What We Do in the Shadows' in a packed theater when it first came out. — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy - like high fantasy - and then the fourth one was a historical fantasy about Mozart as… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
Our fashion for us, it's an expression; first of all of life, I put all of myself in my fashion. Sometimes it's good, sometimes… — Stefano Gabbana Copy Share Image
When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm a great believer in the power of the pause. Radio is a bit brasher now. My style was slower. I just used… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
I try to have something in common with my protagonists, especially when I'm writing in the first person. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
