I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
ADAM RAPPWhen 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 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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I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
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The scent goes right to your stomach.
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And you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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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 just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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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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The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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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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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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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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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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I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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