I don’t like it when it’s consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature.
ADAM RAPPI don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system.
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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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I know that something inevitable will happen.
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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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There’s only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky.
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My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
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Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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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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The same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn’t a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they’re not in the sky
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It’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.
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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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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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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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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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