You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
ADAM RAPPThe scent goes right to your stomach.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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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 like it when it’s consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature.
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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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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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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’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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One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
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Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
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The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
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I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
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