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We only have so much time.... Time will kill you it really will.
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Adam Rapp
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 15
Film Director
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More quotes by Adam Rapp
You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
Adam Rapp
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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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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One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. 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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Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.
Adam Rapp
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.
Adam Rapp
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 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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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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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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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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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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My life has been in shambles, like my personal relationships, my laundry, paying bills now I have someone who pays my bills and it's always been a challenge because it overwhelms me.
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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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I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible, I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel but sometimes, I'll take a break for a couple weeks for a project that is paying me money like a television project which I try to stay away from just to stay financially ahead of the game.
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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.
Adam Rapp
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.
Adam Rapp
A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing.
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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.
Adam Rapp
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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