My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
ADAM RAPPSnow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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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 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.
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My life has been in shambles, like my personal relationships, my laundry, paying bills now I have someone who pays my bills and it’s always been a challenge because it overwhelms me.
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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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One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
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I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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It’s been hard for me to not write, and that’s the only process I can speak to I guess, it’s so compulsive and I need to do it all the time that sometimes I make myself not do it so I can actually tend to my life.
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I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren’t going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.
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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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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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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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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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