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I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.

Adam Rapp

I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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Focus Focused Rigorous Scheduling Show Time
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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Anand Thakur
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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Draft First Gallops Long Period Tend Until Write
I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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Authorship Extension Own Thinking Work Working
Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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Directing Good Idea Manager Okay Sometimes Stage
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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Escalate Excuse Hardest Keep Keeping Leave Part Tension
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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Answer Asked People Process Schedule Strange
You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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Escape Much Survive You
I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
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Director Hierarchical Room Rooms Sort Totalitarian Type
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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Anand Thakur
I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it’s a lie already at work.
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Actor Auditioning Big Illusive Lying Process Really Work
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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Big Friend Impossible Irresponsible Mess Spend Time Touch Writing
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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Curl Fetal Kitchen Position Reason Right Slept Table
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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Against Direct Fight Going Learn Like Should Started Think
Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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Ago Fifteen Killed Sister Year
My work is always more emotional than I am.
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Always Character Emotional Girlfriend More

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