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
ADAM RAPPI don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart
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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 write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,
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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 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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I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
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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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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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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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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.
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I’ve never really felt that I’ve had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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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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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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Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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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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