I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
ADAM RAPPYou 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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I don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart
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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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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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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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My life has been in shambles, like my personal relationships, my laundry, paying bills now I have someone who pays my bills and it’s always been a challenge because it overwhelms me.
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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
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A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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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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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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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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I don’t like it when it’s consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature.
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