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When I’m directing, I’m pretty much not writing, but when I’m not directing I am writing a lot.

Adam Rapp

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?
ADAM RAPP

Country Dog Feel Girl Living Month Sure Year
I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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Actor Designer Working Writing
The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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Exit High Simple So Someone Stake
It’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.
ADAM RAPP

Answer Asked People Process Schedule Strange
Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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Ago Fifteen Killed Sister Year
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.
ADAM RAPP

Compassion Cruelty Grace Hopefully Ingest Little Sense Think World
I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
ADAM RAPP

Couple Game More Possible Three Try Two Writing
There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.
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Death Move House Moving People Some Unwritten Wall
Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
ADAM RAPP

Directing Good Idea Manager Okay Sometimes Stage
I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I’m sensitive to it.
ADAM RAPP

Anand Thakur
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.
ADAM RAPP

Escalate Excuse Hardest Keep Keeping Leave Part Tension
I’ve never really felt that I’ve had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
ADAM RAPP

Clothes Cut Cutting Felt Hair Really Right
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
ADAM RAPP

Blackbird Flying Hear Playing Radio Sky Song
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.
ADAM RAPP

Cheese Country Cow Drinking Hamburger Helper Look Macroni Milk Year
I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn’t matter.
ADAM RAPP

Director Hat Matter Playwright Storyteller Wearing
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.
ADAM RAPP

Beacon Candle Expire Grief Heart Lighthouse Rain System Temperature

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