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" I was a jock in college and high school, but I didn't hang out with the jocks. I was sort of a nerd who didn't look like a nerd. I never really fit into any social set. "
Adam Rapp
Look
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College
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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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" I like to write about teenagers because it's such an uncertain and dramatic time. "
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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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" There was a kind of physical anarchy that dominated most of my younger life. I was always too skinny, not hairy enough, my voice jumped around. It was a thing that drove me away from towel lines in gym class. "
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" I don't see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can. "
Adam Rapp
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Movies
Lot
" I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff. "
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Serious
Writing
Me
" When you're poor, you don't want anyone to know you're poor. "
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Know
Poor
Want
" 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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" 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. "
Adam Rapp
Film
Away
More
" Some of the greatest works of theater, from Chekov's work to modern playwrights', consist of just a few people in a room with no one leaving. "
Adam Rapp
Leaving
Work
Greatest
" I love plays that have musical moments. I'm not a big fan of musicals per se, but I love straight plays that have musical edges to them. I don't know if I will ever be able to structure a musical, but 'Finer Noble Gases' is as close as I've gotten. "
Adam Rapp
Love
Will
Structure
" I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort of narrative, and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff. "
Adam Rapp
Enjoy
Scary
Narrative
" When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot. It's strange: people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can't even answer it. I don't keep regular hours. "
Adam Rapp
Me
Process
People
" 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? "
Adam Rapp
Work
Audience
Kind
" When I came to New York, I was really awkward. I went to military academy for high school, so I didn't have the socialization that most kids do. When I got here, I was five years behind everybody. Talking to women was weird for me. "
Adam Rapp
Women
Me
New York
" When I work in the theater, you know you'll get this almost devotional, religious experience where you're breaking bread with everyone every day. "
Adam Rapp
Work
Bread
Day
" I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and I went to a military academy for high school in Wisconsin. Then I went to college, on a basketball scholarship to a small school in Iowa, so I'm like Mr. Midwest. "
Adam Rapp
Born
School
Small
" I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive, and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops. I won't eat right. I forget to do my laundry. "
Adam Rapp
Time
Laundry
Forget
" 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.' "
Adam Rapp
Fight
Learn
Play
" 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. "
Adam Rapp
Small
You
Big
" 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. "
Adam Rapp
Conservative
Fear
Hate
" I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter. And the rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic, and the best idea wins. "
Adam Rapp
I Am
Matter
Love
" 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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Always
Work
Say