So I started to think like, “well if I’m going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct”.
ADAM RAPPMy characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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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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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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A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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It just happens quicker and faster now.
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Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
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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 show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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I think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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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’m directing, I’m pretty much not writing, but when I’m not directing I am writing a lot.
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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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There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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