You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
ADAM RAPPA typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it’s a lie already at work.
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The same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn’t a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they’re not in the sky
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When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There’s nothing stranger than the smell of someone else’s house
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What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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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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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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I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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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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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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It just happens quicker and faster now.
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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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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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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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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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