It just happens quicker and faster now.
ADAM RAPPIt’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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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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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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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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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’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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I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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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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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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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn’t matter.
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There’s only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky.
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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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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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