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Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.

Adam Rapp

You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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Escape Much Survive You
My work is always more emotional than I am.
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Always Character Emotional Girlfriend More
I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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Actor Designer Working Writing
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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Auditioning Hard Hate Job Really Reductive Thinking
When I’m directing, I’m pretty much not writing, but when I’m not directing I am writing a lot.
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Directing Lot Much Pretty Writing
I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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Director Idea Other Stealing Worked
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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Entertain Horrible Know More Myself Trying Working
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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Ability Conflict Ending Everyone Fair Minor Write
For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.
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Curl Fetal Kitchen Position Reason Right Slept Table
The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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Exit High Simple So Someone Stake
I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I’m sensitive to it.
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Anand Thakur
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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Draft First Gallops Long Period Tend Until Write
Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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Bowel Grow Humidity Liver Settle Snow Thick
In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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Carriage Country Forever People Simple Taking
And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
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Access Automobile Internet Jet Public Transporation
When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There’s nothing stranger than the smell of someone else’s house
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House Inside Nothing Oatmeal Smell Stood Stranger

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