I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
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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I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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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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So I started to think like, “well if I’m going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct”.
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The scent goes right to your stomach.
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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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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 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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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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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.
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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There’s nothing stranger than the smell of someone else’s house
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