Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
ADAM RAPPIce congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
ADAM RAPPI think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
ADAM RAPPYou can’t run forever.
ADAM RAPPI feel that I’d rather know an actors’ work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or I’ll see them in something and I’ll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.
ADAM RAPPAnd you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
ADAM RAPPI don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart
ADAM RAPPI 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.
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 RAPPI try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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 must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.
ADAM RAPPA typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
ADAM RAPPI write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,
ADAM RAPPMy characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
ADAM RAPPI don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
ADAM RAPPOne of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
ADAM RAPP