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.
ADAM RAPPWe’re so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
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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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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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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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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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There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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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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More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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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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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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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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The same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn’t a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they’re not in the sky
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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’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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I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
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