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 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.
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I find that more and more I’m trying to entertain myself when I’m working, because I know the work’s going to go to a horrible place.
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I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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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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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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I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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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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I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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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 suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.
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If it weren’t for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family’s turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.
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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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There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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When it’s just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.
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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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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.
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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 put big concepts on my work, and it’s all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.
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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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You can’t run forever.
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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’ve written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it’s important for people to know that theatre is vital.
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