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Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.

Adam Rapp

There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
ADAM RAPP

Exciting Fall Free Life Really Screwed Someone Up
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.
ADAM RAPP

Guess Hard Need Process Sometimes Speak Write Writing
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
Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
ADAM RAPP

Directing Good Idea Manager Okay Sometimes Stage
The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
ADAM RAPP

Best Democratic Idea Pretty Room Tend Win Winning
I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
ADAM RAPP

Director Hierarchical Room Rooms Sort Totalitarian Type
Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
ADAM RAPP

Congeal Ice Lung Spiderweb Stomach
You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
ADAM RAPP

Always Count Country Cutting Leg Time
When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I’m a much more practical person in the world,
ADAM RAPP

Different Directing Much World Writing
I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
ADAM RAPP

Changed Compassion Complicated Forever Overcoming Side Thinking Year
Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
ADAM RAPP

Bowel Grow Humidity Liver Settle Snow Thick
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.
ADAM RAPP

Auditioning Hard Hate Job Really Reductive Thinking
You don’t really develop feelings about a place till you’ve left it. It’s like a girl or a dog.
ADAM RAPP

Develop Dog Feeling Girl Left Like Place
I don’t put big concepts on my work, and it’s all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.
ADAM RAPP

Actor Concept Keeping Often Room Together Work
I know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
ADAM RAPP

Certain Know Room Smell Think Want
Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
ADAM RAPP

Criticism Distributed Really Town Unevenly

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