One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them 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.
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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 appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I’ve lived here for sixteen years.
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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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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
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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 just happens quicker and faster now.
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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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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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A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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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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The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
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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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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.
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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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You don’t really develop feelings about a place till you’ve left it. It’s like a girl or a dog.
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Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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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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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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