So I started to think like, “well if I’m going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct”.
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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I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
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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 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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Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
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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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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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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 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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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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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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