I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn’t matter.
ADAM RAPPI feel that I’d rather know an actors’ work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or I’ll see them in something and I’ll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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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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Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
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I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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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 know that something inevitable will happen.
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It just happens quicker and faster now.
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The scent goes right to your stomach.
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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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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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My life has been in shambles, like my personal relationships, my laundry, paying bills now I have someone who pays my bills and it’s always been a challenge because it overwhelms me.
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I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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It’s been hard for me to not write, and that’s the only process I can speak to I guess, it’s so compulsive and I need to do it all the time that sometimes I make myself not do it so I can actually tend to my life.
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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
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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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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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