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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”.

Adam Rapp

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.
ADAM RAPP

Actor Auditioning Big Illusive Lying Process Really Work
I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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Actor Designer Working Writing
It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.
ADAM RAPP

Bearing Bone Important Rest Spend Trying Weight
I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
ADAM RAPP

Authorship Extension Own Thinking Work Working
Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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Bowel Grow Humidity Liver Settle Snow Thick
When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There’s nothing stranger than the smell of someone else’s house
ADAM RAPP

House Inside Nothing Oatmeal Smell Stood Stranger
I won’t eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him.
ADAM RAPP

Dog Eat Forget Laundry Now Remember Right Walk
I don’t like it when it’s consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature.
ADAM RAPP

Advocacy Consumer Criticism Kind Like Literature Should Spend
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.
ADAM RAPP

Entertain Horrible Know More Myself Trying Working
You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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Always Count Country Cutting Leg Time
I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
ADAM RAPP

Everything Ignore Lost Lot Relationship
I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
ADAM RAPP

Focus Focused Rigorous Scheduling Show Time
I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn’t matter.
ADAM RAPP

Director Hat Matter Playwright Storyteller Wearing
You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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Escape Much Survive You
I don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart
ADAM RAPP

Heart Mind Much Song Talking Voice
One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
ADAM RAPP

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