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.
ADAM RAPPThe stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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I’ll take a break for a couple weeks for a project that is paying me money like a television project which I try to stay away from just to stay financially ahead of the game.
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Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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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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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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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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And you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
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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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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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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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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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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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You can’t run forever.
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