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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.

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Adam Rapp
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 15
Film Director
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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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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? 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 think I'm a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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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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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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What I've learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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I've never really felt that I've had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest. Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart. Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can't find it with all their machines and microcameras.
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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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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.
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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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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'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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I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. 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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I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I'm sensitive to it.
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When I kicked in the first TV – a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels – it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. And there's nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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You can't run forever. There's only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky. And you can't go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
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