I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
ADAM RAPPI just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
ADAM RAPPI 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
ADAM RAPPIt 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.
ADAM RAPPThere’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.
ADAM RAPPYou can’t run forever.
ADAM RAPPMore often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
ADAM RAPPI 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.
ADAM RAPPIn Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
ADAM RAPPI imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
ADAM RAPPThe scent goes right to your stomach.
ADAM RAPPI 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 RAPPA typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
ADAM RAPPI dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
ADAM RAPPThe 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
ADAM RAPPSomewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
ADAM RAPPI’ve never really felt that I’ve had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
ADAM RAPP