When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I’m a much more practical person in the world,
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.
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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 just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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I’ve never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.
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I know that something inevitable will happen.
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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”.
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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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But when I’m writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I’m just impossible to get in touch with, and I don’t spend time with friends.
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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system.
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There’s nothing stranger than the smell of someone else’s house
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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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