I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help. Sam Shepard More Quotes by Sam Shepard More Quotes From Sam Shepard Caryl Churchill is a writer of some note, but in the sack, she makes me explain everything. Sam Shepard notes It's hard to explain why exactly, but I think that when I began writing plays, it was from an actor's point of view more than anything. I had the feeling that if you put yourself in the position of the actor on stage and write from that perspective, it would give you a certain advantage in terms of being inside of the play. Sam Shepard viewswritingthinking I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer. Sam Shepard stuffwaythinking I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately. Sam Shepard wristsshotskids My dad's side of the family ... they're a real bizarre bunch, going back to the original colonies. That side's got a real tough strain of alcoholism. It goes back generations and generations, so that you can't remember when there was a sober grandfather. Sam Shepard dadrealgrandfather Ive been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me. Sam Shepard wantplaywriting After the falling out with my father, I worked on a couple of ranches - thoroughbred layup farms, actually - out toward Chino, California. That was fine for a little while, but I wanted to get out completely, and twenty miles away wasnt far enough. Sam Shepard couplefatherfall If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end. Sam Shepard deadendyourselfyou To sit on a ranch horse that's been broken in, it's like getting in a Porsche. Sam Shepard sitlikehorsebroken I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace. Sam Shepard thoughtyoudesertpeace When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse or do something that I perceive to be a lot more fun. Sam Shepard ridehorseworkfun Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery. Sam Shepard heademotionsmysterypowerful Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why I think so many really powerful novelists can't write a play - because they don't understand that it's spoken - that it hits the air. They don't get that. Sam Shepard understandthinkyoutheatre All good writing comes out of aloneness. Sam Shepard outgoodgood-writingwriting I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; all it does is create more fences between people, I think. Sam Shepard goodthinkmepeople 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 feelplacesadhome 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. Sam Shepard americangroupnonsenseworld 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. Sam Shepard bettergreatyoubelieve 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. Sam Shepard greatgoodmomentyou
