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 ShepardI hate endings. Just detest them. Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster. โฆ The temptation towards resolution, towards wrapping up the package, seems to me a terrible trap. Why not be more honest with the moment? The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning. Thatโs genius.
Sam ShepardYou canโt keep messing me around like this. Itโs been going on too long. I canโt take it anymore. I get sick every time you come around. Then I get sick when you leave. Youโre like a disease to me.
Sam ShepardI got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
Sam ShepardThe fantastic thing about the theatre is that it can make something be seen that's invisible, and that's where my interest in theatre is- that you can be watching this thing happening with actors and costumes and light and set and language, and even plot, and something emerges from beyond that, and that's the image part that I'm looking for, that sort of added dimension.
Sam Shepard