American - Playwright | November 5, 1943 - July 27, 2017
To sit on a ranch horse that's been broken in, it's like getting in a Porsche.
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.
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I don't belong much anywhere.
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It's really great to see an actor find himself, in his sojourn.
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You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
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A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
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Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.
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I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.
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More than any other art form I know of in America, country music speaks of the true relationship between the American male and the American female... Terrible and impossible.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
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