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 RAPPI 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.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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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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More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
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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.
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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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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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One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
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I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
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I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,
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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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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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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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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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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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