I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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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 dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
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The scent goes right to your stomach.
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I’ve been living in Portland for five months and I’m not sure how I feel about it. I probably won’t really know for years because that’s how it works right?
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I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I’m sensitive to it.
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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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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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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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I feel that I’d rather know an actors’ work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or I’ll see them in something and I’ll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.
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The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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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 mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart
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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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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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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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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 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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I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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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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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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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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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 appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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