Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
ADAM RAPPThere’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.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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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 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’ll take a break for a couple weeks for a project that is paying me money like a television project which I try to stay away from just to stay financially ahead of the game.
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If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.
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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 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 think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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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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The scent goes right to your stomach.
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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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I don’t put big concepts on my work, and it’s all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.
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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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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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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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