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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.

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Adam Rapp
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 15
Film Director
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Joliet
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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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I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
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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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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'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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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
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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 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 think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship.
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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 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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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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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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Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.
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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 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 just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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We only have so much time.... Time will kill you – it really will.
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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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