I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
ADAM RAPPI began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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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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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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If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.
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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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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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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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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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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.
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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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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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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.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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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.
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