I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
ADAM RAPPYou don’t really develop feelings about a place till you’ve left it. It’s like a girl or a dog.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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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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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’ve been living in Portland for five months and I’m not sure how I feel about it. I probably won’t really know for years because that’s how it works right?
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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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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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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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If it weren’t for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family’s turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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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 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 had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn’t intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play
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I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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It just happens quicker and faster now.
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I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.
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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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