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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.

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.


Adam Rapp  Adam Rapp
Tags: Wisdom  Compassion  Overcoming  Grace 

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Adam Rapp (born June 15, 1968) is an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, musician and film director.[1] His play, Red Light Winter, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2006.[2]

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When you're making under-million-dollar films, it becomes so much about actors' availability. When you're using big actors for small films, you're in second or third position to the big monoliths.

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 Tags: Small You Big Position Second Much
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Film directing has perfected my theater directing. I think when I first started directing, a lot of my stuff was very lateral; I was afraid to have the actors' backs turned away, afraid to put them too far upstage, and I think once I did more things with film, I got more interested in composition.

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 Tags: Think Afraid Film More Started Away
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When you're poor, you don't want anyone to know you're poor.

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 Tags: Know You Want Poor Anyone
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I like to write about teenagers because it's such an uncertain and dramatic time.

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 Tags: Time Teenagers Write Like Dramatic
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The biggest audience for Off Broadway is mostly coming in on a train - either Upper East Siders or Metro-North. I go to the theater, and everyone around me is over 50. How interested will they be in my kind of work?

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 Tags: Work Me Train Kind Will Audience
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I saw 'Six Degrees of Separation' because my brother was in it. It was a watershed experience. It was theatrical and scary, and New York functioned like a character. John Guare became a hero for me.

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 Tags: Hero Character Experience Brother Me
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I hate the idea of sheltering kids from challenging books. It's just another form of conservative fear that promotes ignorance more than anything else.

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 Tags: Fear Ignorance Hate More Kids Books
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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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