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I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.

Adam Rapp

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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Actor Designer Working Writing
Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
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Deeper Heart Put Somewhere
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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Enter Flash Gun Machine Someone Tried
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 show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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Focus Focused Rigorous Scheduling Show Time
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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Directing Lot Much Pretty Writing
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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Anand Thakur
I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I’m sensitive to it.
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The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
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Artery Colder Evaporate Fills Heart Mist Rain Turn Warm
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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Auditioning Hard Hate Job Really Reductive Thinking
I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
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Changed Compassion Complicated Forever Overcoming Side Thinking Year
In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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Carriage Country Forever People Simple Taking
And you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
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Anywhere Kind Plane Rocket Sky Some Unless
But when I’m writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I’m just impossible to get in touch with, and I don’t spend time with friends.
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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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Certain Know Room Smell Think Want
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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I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.

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