It’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.
ADAM RAPPThere must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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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 there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
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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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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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I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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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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You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
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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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It just happens quicker and faster now.
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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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We’re so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
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More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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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’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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A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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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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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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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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My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
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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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I don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart
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I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
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Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
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