Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
ADAM RAPPSomewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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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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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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A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
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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 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 don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
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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’ve never really felt that I’ve had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
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I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,
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Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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The scent goes right to your stomach.
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One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
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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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I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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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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I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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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 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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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 began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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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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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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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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