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People are starved for a way of life - they're hunting for a way to be or to act toward the world.

~Sam Shepard

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On every film, there are producers all over the place, and everyone's got to have an opinion. I think the screenplay is a beautiful form with great potential, but the environment around it is awful for a writer.

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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.

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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.'

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I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

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When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play.

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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.

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What I like most about Bolano is his courage.

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I think Bolano had a generosity about him that was unique. He seemed to include so many people in the circle of his adventures, whereas I felt like I was pretty selfish.

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My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: November 5th, 1943

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