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Adam Rapp
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 15
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My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.
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I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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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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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'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 find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.
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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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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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I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship.
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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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I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
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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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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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Man, that's the only kind of book I like one that's so real you want to find out everything there is to know about the person who wrote it, like how tall he is and what kind of music he likes and whether or not he really went through all the stuff he was writing about.
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We only have so much time.... Time will kill you it really will.
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I don't mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart 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
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Whenever I've been in rehearsals, it's really fun, there's always laughing.
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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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