I know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
ADAM RAPPI’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?
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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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 know that something inevitable will happen.
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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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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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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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When I’m directing, I’m pretty much not writing, but when I’m not directing I am writing a lot.
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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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Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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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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I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn’t intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play
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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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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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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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