You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
ADAM RAPPWhen I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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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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More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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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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I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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If it weren’t for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family’s turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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And you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
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I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.
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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 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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I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
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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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I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
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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 don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart
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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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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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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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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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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 think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.
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Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
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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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