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.
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 would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.
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I know that something inevitable will happen.
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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 don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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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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I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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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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And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
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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 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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I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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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 began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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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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