If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.
ADAM RAPPI 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
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren’t going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.
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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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I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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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
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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
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Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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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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I don’t know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady’s, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts.
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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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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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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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I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,
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Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system.
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I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
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The same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn’t a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they’re not in the sky
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I don’t put big concepts on my work, and it’s all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.
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What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.
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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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I 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.
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I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
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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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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?
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