We’re so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
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’ve written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it’s important for people to know that theatre is vital.
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You don’t really develop feelings about a place till you’ve left it. It’s like a girl or a dog.
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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 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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There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.
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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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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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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.
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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 had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn’t intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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It just happens quicker and faster now.
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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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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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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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