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.
ADAM RAPPIt’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.
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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 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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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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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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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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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 dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
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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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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 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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There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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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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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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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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