And you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
ADAM RAPPObviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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You can’t run forever.
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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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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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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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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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The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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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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I know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
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I think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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The same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn’t a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they’re not in the sky
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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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