You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
ADAM RAPPThe scent goes right to your stomach.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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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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We’re so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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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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When it’s just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.
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I think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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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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I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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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 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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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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