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 RAPPI 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.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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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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For 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 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.
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Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
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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’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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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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Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
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I won’t eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him.
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And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
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I don’t like it when it’s consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature.
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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.
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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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Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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