What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
ADAM RAPPWhat I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
ADAM RAPPI tend to not write for a long period of time until I can’t not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops.
ADAM RAPPSo I started to think like, “well if I’m going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct”.
ADAM RAPPI feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn’t matter.
ADAM RAPPI just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
ADAM RAPPThere must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.
ADAM RAPPAnd there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
ADAM RAPPYou can’t run forever.
ADAM RAPPI don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
ADAM RAPPI know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
ADAM RAPPI find that more and more I’m trying to entertain myself when I’m working, because I know the work’s going to go to a horrible place.
ADAM RAPPWhen I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
ADAM RAPPI appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
ADAM RAPPI dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
ADAM RAPPI know that something inevitable will happen.
ADAM RAPPWhen it’s just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.
ADAM RAPP