You don’t really develop feelings about a place till you’ve left it. It’s like a girl or a dog.
ADAM RAPPThe rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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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 tend to not write for a long period of time until I can’t not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops.
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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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There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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And you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
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I’ve been living in Portland for five months and I’m not sure how I feel about it. I probably won’t really know for years because that’s how it works right?
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I 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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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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I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
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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 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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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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A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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I know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
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