You can’t run forever.
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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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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There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.
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My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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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’ve never really felt that I’ve had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
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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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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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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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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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It just happens quicker and faster now.
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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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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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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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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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I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
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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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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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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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I know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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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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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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I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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