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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.

Adam Rapp

The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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Best Democratic Idea Pretty Room Tend Win Winning
I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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Couple Game More Possible Three Try Two Writing
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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Entertain Horrible Know More Myself Trying Working
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.
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Highway Maker North Pavement Quit Road Sky Turn
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
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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Beacon Candle Expire Grief Heart Lighthouse Rain System Temperature
And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
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Access Automobile Internet Jet Public Transporation
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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Different Directing Much World Writing
I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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Director Idea Other Stealing Worked
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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Anand Thakur
I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn’t matter.
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Director Hat Matter Playwright Storyteller Wearing
There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.
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Death Move House Moving People Some Unwritten Wall
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
My life has been in shambles, like my personal relationships, my laundry, paying bills now I have someone who pays my bills and it’s always been a challenge because it overwhelms me.
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Bill Challenge Laundry Pay Paying Personal Relationship Shambles
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
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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Bearing Bone Important Rest Spend Trying Weight

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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