One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
ADAM RAPPIt 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.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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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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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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It’s been hard for me to not write, and that’s the only process I can speak to I guess, it’s so compulsive and I need to do it all the time that sometimes I make myself not do it so I can actually tend to my life.
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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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So I started to think like, “well if I’m going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct”.
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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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There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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I’ve never really felt that I’ve had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
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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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You can’t run forever.
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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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I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I’m sensitive to it.
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More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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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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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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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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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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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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A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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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.
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The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.
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And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
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