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’ve written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it’s important for people to know that theatre is vital.
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I know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
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I 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.
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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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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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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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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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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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And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
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If it weren’t for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family’s turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.
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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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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I’ve lived here for sixteen years.
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