My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
ADAM RAPPMy work is always more emotional than I am.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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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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I know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
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We’re so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
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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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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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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 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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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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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’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
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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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I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I’ve lived here for sixteen years.
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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 write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,
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