In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
ADAM RAPPI’ll take a break for a couple weeks for a project that is paying me money like a television project which I try to stay away from just to stay financially ahead of the game.
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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’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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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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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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The scent goes right to your stomach.
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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 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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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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There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.
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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 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 don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
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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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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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