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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.

Adam Rapp

My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
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Able Accused Character Each Girlfriend Other Thing
I’ll take a break for a couple weeks for a project that is paying me money like a television project which I try to stay away from just to stay financially ahead of the game.
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Ahead Financial Game Money Television
Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
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After Another Demolishing Discouraging Killing New Obviously Play Power Time
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 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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The scent goes right to your stomach.
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I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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Appreciated Criticism Important People Play Think Thinking
You don’t really develop feelings about a place till you’ve left it. It’s like a girl or a dog.
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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 don’t know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady’s, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts.
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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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Criticism Distributed Really Town Unevenly
I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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I don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart
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I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren’t going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.
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Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,
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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.

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