So I started to think like, “well if I’m going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct”.
ADAM RAPPMary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
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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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Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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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 try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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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 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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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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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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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 it’s just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.
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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 began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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