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.
ADAM RAPPBut when I’m writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I’m just impossible to get in touch with, and I don’t spend time with friends.
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 tend to not write for a long period of time until I can’t not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops.
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Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.
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When it’s just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.
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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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I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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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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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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I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn’t matter.
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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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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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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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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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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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When I’m directing, I’m pretty much not writing, but when I’m not directing I am writing a lot.
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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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The scent goes right to your stomach.
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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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But when I’m writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I’m just impossible to get in touch with, and I don’t spend time with friends.
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Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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