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
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.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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I won’t eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him.
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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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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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My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
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It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.
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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.
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I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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I know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
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I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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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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I know that something inevitable will happen.
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