If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.
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, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
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I feel that I’d rather know an actors’ work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or I’ll see them in something and I’ll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.
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Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
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I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren’t going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.
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We’re so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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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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I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
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I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
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I’ve never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.
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