Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
ADAM RAPPMy work is always more emotional than I am.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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I don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart
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I don’t put big concepts on my work, and it’s all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.
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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.
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It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.
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I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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I’ve been living in Portland for five months and I’m not sure how I feel about it. I probably won’t really know for years because that’s how it works right?
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So I started to think like, “well if I’m going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct”.
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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
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You don’t really develop feelings about a place till you’ve left it. It’s like a girl or a dog.
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The scent goes right to your stomach.
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I won’t eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him.
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I’ve written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it’s important for people to know that theatre is vital.
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A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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I’ve never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.
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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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But when I’m writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I’m just impossible to get in touch with, and I don’t spend time with friends.
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You can’t run forever.
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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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