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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.

Adam Rapp

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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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 won’t eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him.
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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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For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.
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One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
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Anand Thakur
If it weren’t for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family’s turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.
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Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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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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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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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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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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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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