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I don’t like it when it’s consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature.

Adam Rapp

I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
ADAM RAPP

Character Gun Happen Writing
For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.
ADAM RAPP

Curl Fetal Kitchen Position Reason Right Slept Table
When I’m directing, I’m pretty much not writing, but when I’m not directing I am writing a lot.
ADAM RAPP

Directing Lot Much Pretty Writing
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.
ADAM RAPP

Dream Enjoy Incredibly Life Scary Suffering
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 RAPP

Director Hat Matter Playwright Storyteller Wearing
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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Actor Concept Keeping Often Room Together Work
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.
ADAM RAPP

Beacon Candle Expire Grief Heart Lighthouse Rain System Temperature
Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
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Cookies Fireplace Furniture House Lemon Log Oatmeal Polish Smelled
What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
ADAM RAPP

Last Learn Learned Merely Storyteller Year
I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
ADAM RAPP

Appreciated Criticism Important People Play Think Thinking
I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.
ADAM RAPP

Carefully Community Reform School Staff Support
Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
ADAM RAPP

Deeper Heart Put Somewhere
The same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn’t a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they’re not in the sky
ADAM RAPP

Blackbird Flying Hear Playing Radio Sky Song
A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
ADAM RAPP

Day Directing Typical Writing
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.
ADAM RAPP

Bill Challenge Laundry Pay Paying Personal Relationship Shambles
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.
ADAM RAPP

Bearing Bone Important Rest Spend Trying Weight

I don’t like it when it’s consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature.

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