Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
ADAM RAPPThe 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
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I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren’t going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.
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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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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.
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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
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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?
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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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There’s only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
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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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I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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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 feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn’t matter.
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I don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart
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