When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I’m a much more practical person in the world,
ADAM RAPPThe rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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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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There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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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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What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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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 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’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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I don’t know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady’s, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts.
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I know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
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Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
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One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
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