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We only have so much time.... Time will kill you it really will.
Adam Rapp
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Adam Rapp
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 15
Film Director
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Illinois
Kill
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Time
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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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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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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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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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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 had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play, so I started to think like, well if I'm going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct.
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There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. 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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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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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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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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A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing.
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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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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 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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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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When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I'm a much more practical person in the world, I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused. But when I'm writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I'm just impossible to get in touch with, and I don't spend time with friends.
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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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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've never really felt that I've had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
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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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