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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.
Adam Rapp
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Adam Rapp
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 15
Film Director
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Illinois
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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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I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship.
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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've never really felt that I've had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
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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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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 began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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