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I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren’t going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.

Adam Rapp

You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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Always Count Country Cutting Leg Time
I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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Director Idea Other Stealing Worked
I feel that I’d rather know an actors’ work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or I’ll see them in something and I’ll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.
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Actor Along Coffee Down Instinct Shape Sit Way Work
The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
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Artery Colder Evaporate Fills Heart Mist Rain Turn Warm
A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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Day Directing Typical Writing
I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
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Director Hierarchical Room Rooms Sort Totalitarian Type
I know that something inevitable will happen.
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Happen Inevitable Something Will
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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Ability Conflict Ending Everyone Fair Minor Write
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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Escalate Excuse Hardest Keep Keeping Leave Part Tension
Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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Congeal Ice Lung Spiderweb Stomach
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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Anand Thakur
It’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.
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Answer Asked People Process Schedule Strange
I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
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East Movie Portray Think Thinking Village
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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Bearing Bone Important Rest Spend Trying Weight
I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
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Changed Compassion Complicated Forever Overcoming Side Thinking Year
Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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Fun Funny Laughing Really Rehearsal

I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren’t going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.

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I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren’t going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.

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