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I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible

Adam Rapp

I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
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Director Hierarchical Room Rooms Sort Totalitarian Type
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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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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It’s been hard for me to not write, and that’s the only process I can speak to I guess, it’s so compulsive and I need to do it all the time that sometimes I make myself not do it so I can actually tend to my life.
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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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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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I don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart
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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
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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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.
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I’ve never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.
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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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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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I think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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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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I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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