When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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It’s been hard for me to not write, and that’s the only process I can speak to I guess, it’s so compulsive and I need to do it all the time that sometimes I make myself not do it so I can actually tend to my life.
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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 think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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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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Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
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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’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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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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I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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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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What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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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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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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