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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.

Adam Rapp

It’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.
ADAM RAPP

Answer Asked People Process Schedule Strange
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.
ADAM RAPP

Dream Enjoy Incredibly Life Scary Suffering
I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
ADAM RAPP

Appreciated Criticism Important People Play Think Thinking
Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system.
ADAM RAPP

Beacon Candle Expire Grief Heart Lighthouse Rain System Temperature
I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.
ADAM RAPP

Carefully Community Reform School Staff Support
The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
ADAM RAPP

Exit High Simple So Someone Stake
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
ADAM RAPP

Blackbird Flying Hear Playing Radio Sky Song
Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
ADAM RAPP

Ago Fifteen Killed Sister Year
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?
ADAM RAPP

Country Dog Feel Girl Living Month Sure Year
A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
ADAM RAPP

Day Directing Typical Writing
The scent goes right to your stomach.
ADAM RAPP

Goes Right Scent Stomach
It just happens quicker and faster now.
ADAM RAPP

Faster Happen Just Now Quicker
And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
ADAM RAPP

Behaviour Feeling Inspire Nothing Perfection Repeated
Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
ADAM RAPP

Deeper Heart Put Somewhere
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.
ADAM RAPP

Actor Concept Keeping Often Room Together Work
For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.
ADAM RAPP

Curl Fetal Kitchen Position Reason Right Slept Table

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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