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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.

Adam Rapp

I 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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Actor Along Coffee Down Instinct Shape Sit Way Work
I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
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East Movie Portray Think Thinking Village
Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
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Deeper Heart Put Somewhere
Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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Directing Good Idea Manager Okay Sometimes Stage
Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
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Deep Doctor Found Inside Machine Somewhere
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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Designed Destroy Distracted Faster Happen Now Quicker
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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Anand Thakur
You can’t run forever.
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Forever Run Running Sky
I think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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Daunted Huge Little Machinery Play Really Thinking
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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Compassion Cruelty Grace Hopefully Ingest Little Sense Think World
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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Escalate Excuse Hardest Keep Keeping Leave Part Tension
So I started to think like, “well if I’m going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct”.
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Against Direct Fight Going Learn Like Should Started Think
I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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Appreciated Criticism Important People Play Think Thinking
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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Different Directing Much World Writing
More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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Creep Entropy Happen Inevitable More Strangles
Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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Congeal Ice Lung Spiderweb Stomach

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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