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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More Adam Rapp Quotes
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I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
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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 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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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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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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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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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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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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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 don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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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’ve written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it’s important for people to know that theatre is vital.
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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 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 think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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