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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.

Adam Rapp

When it’s just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.
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Actor Behaving Couple Room Scene
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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Designed Destroy Distracted Faster Happen Now Quicker
I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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Actor Designer Working Writing
I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,
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Draft End Novel Play Sometimes Till Write
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
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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Blackbird Flying Hear Playing Radio Sky Song
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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Enough Felt Friend Good Helping Idea Parties Party Really Social Thinking
A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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Day Directing Typical Writing
I think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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Daunted Huge Little Machinery Play Really Thinking
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
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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Beacon Candle Expire Grief Heart Lighthouse Rain System Temperature
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
I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can’t not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops.
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Draft First Gallops Long Period Tend Until Write
I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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Director Idea Other Stealing Worked
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
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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Auditioning Hard Hate Job Really Reductive Thinking

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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