When it’s just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.
ADAM RAPPWhen it’s just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I’m a much more practical person in the world,
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There’s only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky.
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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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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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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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It just happens quicker and faster now.
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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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The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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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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Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
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You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
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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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The scent goes right to your stomach.
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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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I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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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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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 won’t eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him.
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A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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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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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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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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Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
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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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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can’t not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops.
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