There’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 RAPPI’ve never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
-
-
I don’t like it when it’s consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature.
ADAM RAPP -
I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
ADAM RAPP -
I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
ADAM RAPP -
What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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 -
When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There’s nothing stranger than the smell of someone else’s house
ADAM RAPP -
And you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
ADAM RAPP -
There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.
ADAM RAPP -
I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
ADAM RAPP -
I’ve been living in Portland for five months and I’m not sure how I feel about it. I probably won’t really know for years because that’s how it works right?
ADAM RAPP -
One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
ADAM RAPP -
I think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
ADAM RAPP -
It’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.
ADAM RAPP -
And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
ADAM RAPP -
When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I’m a much more practical person in the world,
ADAM RAPP -
I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
ADAM RAPP -
I’ve never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.
ADAM RAPP -
In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
ADAM RAPP -
Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
ADAM RAPP -
I’ve written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it’s important for people to know that theatre is vital.
ADAM RAPP -
I 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 RAPP -
I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
ADAM RAPP -
Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
ADAM RAPP -
The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
ADAM RAPP -
You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
ADAM RAPP -
I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
ADAM RAPP