What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
ADAM RAPPI’ve written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it’s important for people to know that theatre is vital.
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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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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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I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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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’ll take a break for a couple weeks for a project that is paying me money like a television project which I try to stay away from just to stay financially ahead of the game.
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I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
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I think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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You can’t run forever.
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The scent goes right to your stomach.
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When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There’s nothing stranger than the smell of someone else’s house
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It just happens quicker and faster now.
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More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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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 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 write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,
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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.
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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
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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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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 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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