I don’t put big concepts on my work, and it’s all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.
ADAM RAPPMy 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.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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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’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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When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I’m a much more practical person in the world,
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When it’s just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.
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I know that something inevitable will happen.
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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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I’ve written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it’s important for people to know that theatre is vital.
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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 don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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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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I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it’s a lie already at work.
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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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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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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.
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I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I’ve lived here for sixteen years.
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I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
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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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I think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.
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I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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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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You can’t run forever.
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I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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