When it’s just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.
ADAM RAPPWhat I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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You can’t run forever.
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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 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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When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I’m a much more practical person in the world,
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I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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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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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 don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart
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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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Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.
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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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