When I’m directing, I’m pretty much not writing, but when I’m not directing I am writing a lot.
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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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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It’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.
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Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
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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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And you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
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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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I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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I think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I’ve lived here for sixteen years.
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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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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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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 tend to not write for a long period of time until I can’t not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops.
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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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