But when I’m writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I’m just impossible to get in touch with, and I don’t spend time with friends.
ADAM RAPPI feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn’t matter.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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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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I know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
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I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it’s a lie already at work.
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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 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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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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I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn’t intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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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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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 imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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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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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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