You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
ADAM RAPPIn Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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If it weren’t for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family’s turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.
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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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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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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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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 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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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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The scent goes right to your stomach.
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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 began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.
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There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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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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A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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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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