Word: shepards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
Though critical not only of the system of production of films but of the film medium itself, Shepard admitts that he would consider filming one of his plays, "Buried Child." Movies are "a kind of a ruse--an art ruse," Shepard says. "I don't feel like they have any real power to get inside, like theatre...
Though many of the questioners tried to pin Shepard down to descriptions of his own work, Shepard--as he has done in the past-refuses to be categorized. "I've got nothing to say," says the humble Shepard. He explains that the motivation for his work is not to convey any specific message, but varies from play to play...
...Shepard deflects attempts by the audience to intellectualize his writing and directing. "You can't categorize these things," Shepard reiterates. "Life is too interesting to make it fixed...
...Shepard fends off such questions as "Do you believe in God?" ("What God?") and "How do you approach Shakespeare?" ("I don't approach him.") For Shepard--who never attended college--the role of expert dramatist is still a novelty. "Now, to find it's inverted like that is shocking," he says...