Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
ADAM RAPPA typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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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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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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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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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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You can’t run forever.
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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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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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The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
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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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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 never really felt that I’ve had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
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The scent goes right to your stomach.
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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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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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One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
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