You don’t really develop feelings about a place till you’ve left it. It’s like a girl or a dog.
ADAM RAPPI don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
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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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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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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 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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I won’t eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him.
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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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When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I’m a much more practical person in the world,
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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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I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,
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I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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We’re so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
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Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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