I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn’t matter.
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 suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.
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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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I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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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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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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It just happens quicker and faster now.
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I find that more and more I’m trying to entertain myself when I’m working, because I know the work’s going to go to a horrible place.
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I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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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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I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I’ve lived here for sixteen years.
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And you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
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Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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