When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I’m a much more practical person in the world,
ADAM RAPPI think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
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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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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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I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn’t matter.
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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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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
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I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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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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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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I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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The scent goes right to your stomach.
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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 dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
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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.
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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 characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
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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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And you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
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I know that something inevitable will happen.
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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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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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