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.
ADAM RAPPMore often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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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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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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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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If it weren’t for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family’s turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.
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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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The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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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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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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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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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 began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
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I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.
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I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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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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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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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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You can’t run forever.
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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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The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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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 show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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