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.
ADAM RAPPSo I started to think like, “well if I’m going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct”.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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I know that something inevitable will happen.
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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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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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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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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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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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I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,
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When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There’s nothing stranger than the smell of someone else’s house
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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 think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I’m sensitive to it.
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I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
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