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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.

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Adam Rapp
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 15
Film Director
Novelist
Joliet
Illinois
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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 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've never really felt that I've had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
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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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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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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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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 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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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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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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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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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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What I've learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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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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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit. And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet we're so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
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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 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 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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