Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
ADAM RAPPI think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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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’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
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Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system.
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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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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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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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But when I’m writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I’m just impossible to get in touch with, and I don’t spend time with friends.
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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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I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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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 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.
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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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I know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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