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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,

Adam Rapp

I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can’t not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops.
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Draft First Gallops Long Period Tend Until Write
I know that something inevitable will happen.
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Happen Inevitable Something Will
Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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Directing Good Idea Manager Okay Sometimes Stage
If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.
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Enter Flash Gun Machine Someone Tried
When it’s just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.
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Actor Behaving Couple Room Scene
I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I’m sensitive to it.
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Anand Thakur
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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Enjoy Important People Really Theatre Vital Written
Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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Criticism Distributed Really Town Unevenly
Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
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Deeper Heart Put Somewhere
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
In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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Carriage Country Forever People Simple Taking
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
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
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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Escalate Excuse Hardest Keep Keeping Leave Part Tension
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
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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Actor Concept Keeping Often Room Together Work

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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