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
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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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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It just happens quicker and faster now.
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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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If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.
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I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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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 appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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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 dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
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The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
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When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I’m a much more practical person in the world,
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Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
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I don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart
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Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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And you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
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I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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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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I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
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