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The wonderful thing about writing for theatre is you can go anywhere you want with the language. There are no limits. With film, they frown on language - it's always 'Too many words.'
Sam Shepard -
Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat.
Sam Shepard
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Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private.
Sam Shepard -
I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.
Sam Shepard -
It's really great to see an actor find himself, in his sojourn.
Sam Shepard -
I think without writing I would feel completely useless.
Sam Shepard -
People are starved for a way of life - they're hunting for a way to be or to act toward the world.
Sam Shepard -
You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.
Sam Shepard
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To me, a strong sense of self isn't believing in a lot.
Sam Shepard -
To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.
Sam Shepard -
All good writing comes out of aloneness.
Sam Shepard -
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 acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.
Sam Shepard -
I'm still very much a believer in the spontaneity of certain kinds of writing. But then you have to eventually, when you're writing a long play, make adjustments along the way - all kinds of adjustments.
Sam Shepard -
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 and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.
Sam Shepard
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Directing feels great; I'm really happy to be doing this.
Sam Shepard -
With acting, you can find a way to make it interesting for yourself, if nobody else - even on big-budget films. But you're very much on your own.
Sam Shepard -
What I like most about Bolano is his courage.
Sam Shepard -
I'm not a big fan of anniversaries.
Sam Shepard -
Men lie all the time.
Sam Shepard -
When you listen intensely to anything, you see how it can be improved.
Sam Shepard
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The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.
Sam Shepard -
I basically live out of my truck - I mean from place to place. I feel more at home in my truck than just about anywhere, which is a sad thing to say, but it's true.
Sam Shepard -
I think a part of the reason that those early plays were short was that I just kept having these ideas, and I'd just go off and write them. I wasn't trying to write one-act plays - it's just how the ideas would be expressed. Every condition I was in seemed like it could be a play.
Sam Shepard -
You can write 16 plays and not make as much money as you did doing one movie.
Sam Shepard