You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
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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Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
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I know that something inevitable will happen.
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There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.
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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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If it weren’t for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family’s turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.
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The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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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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I’ve never really felt that I’ve had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
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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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The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
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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 appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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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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