The scent goes right to your stomach.
ADAM RAPPI feel that I’d rather know an actors’ work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or I’ll see them in something and I’ll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.
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 don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
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Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
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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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I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.
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I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.
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If it weren’t for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family’s turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.
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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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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.
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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 think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I’m sensitive to it.
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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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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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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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