I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
ADAM RAPPI 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.
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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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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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Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
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When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There’s nothing stranger than the smell of someone else’s house
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I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.
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Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
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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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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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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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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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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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I know that something inevitable will happen.
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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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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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