In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
ADAM RAPPI just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn’t intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play
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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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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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I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
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Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can’t not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops.
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The scent goes right to your stomach.
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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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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 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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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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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
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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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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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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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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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I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I’ve lived here for sixteen years.
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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 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 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 think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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