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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.

Adam Rapp

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.
ADAM RAPP

Dream Enjoy Incredibly Life Scary Suffering
My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
ADAM RAPP

Able Accused Character Each Girlfriend Other Thing
You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
ADAM RAPP

Always Count Country Cutting Leg Time
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.
ADAM RAPP

Bearing Bone Important Rest Spend Trying Weight
I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
ADAM RAPP

Director Hierarchical Room Rooms Sort Totalitarian Type
I’ve never really felt that I’ve had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
ADAM RAPP

Clothes Cut Cutting Felt Hair Really Right
What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
ADAM RAPP

Last Learn Learned Merely Storyteller Year
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.
ADAM RAPP

Big Friend Impossible Irresponsible Mess Spend Time Touch Writing
I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
ADAM RAPP

Couple Game More Possible Three Try Two Writing
And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
ADAM RAPP

Access Automobile Internet Jet Public Transporation
I think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
ADAM RAPP

Daunted Huge Little Machinery Play Really Thinking
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.
ADAM RAPP

Entertain Horrible Know More Myself Trying Working
Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
ADAM RAPP

Deeper Heart Put Somewhere
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.
ADAM RAPP

Guess Hard Need Process Sometimes Speak Write Writing
In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
ADAM RAPP

Carriage Country Forever People Simple Taking
The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
ADAM RAPP

Artery Colder Evaporate Fills Heart Mist Rain Turn Warm

You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.

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