When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There’s nothing stranger than the smell of someone else’s house
ADAM RAPPObviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
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The scent goes right to your stomach.
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One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
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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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Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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I find that more and more I’m trying to entertain myself when I’m working, because I know the work’s going to go to a horrible place.
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What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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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 write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,
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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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And you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
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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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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I’m a much more practical person in the world,
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