I know that something inevitable will happen.
ADAM RAPPSo 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 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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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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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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It’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.
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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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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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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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I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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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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Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
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