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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.

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.
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Dream Enjoy Incredibly Life Scary Suffering
My work is always more emotional than I am.
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Always Character Emotional Girlfriend More
You can’t run forever.
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Forever Run Running Sky
A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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Day Directing Typical Writing
The scent goes right to your stomach.
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Goes Right Scent Stomach
I’ve never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.
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Enough Felt Friend Good Helping Idea Parties Party Really Social Thinking
Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
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Deep Doctor Found Inside Machine Somewhere
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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Entertain Horrible Know More Myself Trying Working
The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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Exit High Simple So Someone Stake
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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Guess Hard Need Process Sometimes Speak Write Writing
For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.
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Curl Fetal Kitchen Position Reason Right Slept Table
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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Auditioning Hard Hate Job Really Reductive Thinking
I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn’t matter.
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Director Hat Matter Playwright Storyteller Wearing
Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
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Deeper Heart Put Somewhere
In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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Carriage Country Forever People Simple Taking
I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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Director Idea Other Stealing Worked

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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