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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.

Adam Rapp

I’ve never really felt that I’ve had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
ADAM RAPP

Clothes Cut Cutting Felt Hair Really Right
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.
ADAM RAPP

Highway Maker North Pavement Quit Road Sky Turn
The scent goes right to your stomach.
ADAM RAPP

Goes Right Scent Stomach
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.
ADAM RAPP

Actor Auditioning Big Illusive Lying Process Really Work
You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
ADAM RAPP

Always Count Country Cutting Leg Time
I feel that I’d rather know an actors’ work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or I’ll see them in something and I’ll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.
ADAM RAPP

Actor Along Coffee Down Instinct Shape Sit Way Work
I’ve been living in Portland for five months and I’m not sure how I feel about it. I probably won’t really know for years because that’s how it works right?
ADAM RAPP

Country Dog Feel Girl Living Month Sure Year
One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
ADAM RAPP

Anand Thakur
Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
ADAM RAPP

Criticism Distributed Really Town Unevenly
The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
ADAM RAPP

Best Democratic Idea Pretty Room Tend Win Winning
I don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart
ADAM RAPP

Heart Mind Much Song Talking Voice
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.
ADAM RAPP

Escalate Excuse Hardest Keep Keeping Leave Part Tension
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.
ADAM RAPP

Draft First Gallops Long Period Tend Until Write
When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There’s nothing stranger than the smell of someone else’s house
ADAM RAPP

House Inside Nothing Oatmeal Smell Stood Stranger
I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
ADAM RAPP

Authorship Extension Own Thinking Work Working
Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
ADAM RAPP

Deep Doctor Found Inside Machine Somewhere

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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