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...interested in covering a lot of terrain. I'd like to design a city park, for instance," Shepard says, evoking a loud laugh. "I guess because I've been writing for twenty years I'm an writer. But I'd like to do a lot of things...
...actor, Shepard has appeared once in a work of his own and a few times on film. He has misgivings about both: he describes his experience acting in his own work as "like being in an aquarium...
...Shepard talked to a group of sixty Harvard students about writing plays. Shephard, who does not like to keep a high public profile, wanted to talk with playwrights at Harvard, but only about a dozen people in the crowd wrote plays, according to Marks. The somewhat sottspoken midwestemer fielded questions from Harvard actors, directors and writers with utmost ease. As he leans back in his chair, taking a long drag on his cigarette, Shepard keeps the group of students captivate for over two hours by answering a wide range of questions...
When asked why he chose to be a playwright, Shepard answers that he did not choose it. He started out as a musician in a rock band, Shepard explains, and stopped playing music when it became more of a business and less of an aristic enterprise. Shepard describes his own career life as if it, too, were an improvisational play. "I don't see it as any kind of evolution. They [his plays] are all experiments in the dark...
Though he has acted in movies before (such as portraying the farmer in the poignant but relatively unknown film Days of Heaven, Shepard came into the public eye when he played Chuck Yeager in the film rendition of the Tom Wolfe novel, The Right Stuff. Shepard explains why he accepted the role despite his disillusionment with Hollywood: his father was a pilot in the airforce, and as a friend of director Philip Kaufman, he decided that he wanted to take the part...