American - Playwright | November 5, 1943 - July 27, 2017
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
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I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.
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I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.
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Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.
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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 over.
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I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to be writing out of a desperate act. It's like their writing is part of a survival kit. Those are the writers that I just absolutely cherish and carry with me everywhere I go.
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I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.
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For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
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My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
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The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
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More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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