You can’t run forever.
ADAM RAPPMy work is always more emotional than I am.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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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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I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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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 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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It’s been hard for me to not write, and that’s the only process I can speak to I guess, it’s so compulsive and I need to do it all the time that sometimes I make myself not do it so I can actually tend to my life.
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There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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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 think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
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It’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.
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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’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 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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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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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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