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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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.
ADAM RAPPI 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.
ADAM RAPPYou don’t really develop feelings about a place till you’ve left it. It’s like a girl or a dog.
ADAM RAPPSomewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
ADAM RAPPBut 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.
ADAM RAPPI know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
ADAM RAPPI’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
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.
ADAM RAPPIt’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.
ADAM RAPPWe’re so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
ADAM RAPPI show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
ADAM RAPPYou 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 RAPPI think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I’m sensitive to it.
ADAM RAPPMy characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
ADAM RAPPI think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
ADAM RAPPIn Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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