Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
ADAM RAPPI think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
-
-
I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
ADAM RAPP -
When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There’s nothing stranger than the smell of someone else’s house
ADAM RAPP -
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
ADAM RAPP -
I won’t eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him.
ADAM RAPP -
I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I’ve lived here for sixteen years.
ADAM RAPP -
In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
ADAM RAPP -
Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
ADAM RAPP -
The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
ADAM RAPP -
I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
ADAM RAPP -
I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn’t matter.
ADAM RAPP -
The 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 RAPP -
I know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
ADAM RAPP -
Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
ADAM RAPP -
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 -
More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
ADAM RAPP