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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”.

Adam Rapp

I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren’t going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.
ADAM RAPP

Auditioning Hard Hate Job Really Reductive Thinking
I’ve never really felt that I’ve had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
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Clothes Cut Cutting Felt Hair Really Right
I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
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East Movie Portray Think Thinking Village
Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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Ago Fifteen Killed Sister Year
One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
ADAM RAPP

Anand Thakur
Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
ADAM RAPP

After Another Demolishing Discouraging Killing New Obviously Play Power Time
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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Director Hat Matter Playwright Storyteller Wearing
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?
ADAM RAPP

Country Dog Feel Girl Living Month Sure Year
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.
ADAM RAPP

Compassion Cruelty Grace Hopefully Ingest Little Sense Think World
I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I’m sensitive to it.
ADAM RAPP

Anand Thakur
More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
ADAM RAPP

Creep Entropy Happen Inevitable More Strangles
When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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Anything Else Over Take Write
You can’t run forever.
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Forever Run Running Sky
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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Ability Conflict Ending Everyone Fair Minor Write
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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Blackbird Flying Hear Playing Radio Sky Song
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.
ADAM RAPP

Actor Concept Keeping Often Room Together Work

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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