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.
ADAM RAPPFor 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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I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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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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I’ve written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it’s important for people to know that theatre is vital.
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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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Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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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 I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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When I’m directing, I’m pretty much not writing, but when I’m not directing I am writing a lot.
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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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I’ll take a break for a couple weeks for a project that is paying me money like a television project which I try to stay away from just to stay financially ahead of the game.
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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 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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I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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