I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
ADAM RAPPI don’t know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady’s, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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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 mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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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 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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Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
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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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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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You don’t really develop feelings about a place till you’ve left it. It’s like a girl or a dog.
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The same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn’t a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they’re not in the sky
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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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It’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer 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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Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
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