I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
ADAM RAPPI appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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I know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
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When I’m directing, I’m pretty much not writing, but when I’m not directing I am writing a lot.
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I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I’ve lived here for sixteen years.
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Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
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I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can’t not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops.
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The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
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There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.
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My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
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I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn’t intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play
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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 like it when it’s consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature.
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For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.
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I’ll take a break for a couple weeks for a project that is paying me money like a television project which I try to stay away from just to stay financially ahead of the game.
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I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
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I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
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I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.
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Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system.
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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
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The scent goes right to your stomach.
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If it weren’t for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family’s turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.
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I don’t know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady’s, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts.
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I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn’t matter.
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Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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