My work is always more emotional than I am.
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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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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The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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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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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 don’t know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady’s, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts.
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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 appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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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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When I’m directing, I’m pretty much not writing, but when I’m not directing I am writing a lot.
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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 imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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I feel that I’d rather know an actors’ work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or I’ll see them in something and I’ll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.
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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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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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