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 RAPPI don’t like it when it’s consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature.
ADAM RAPPI don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart
ADAM RAPPA typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
ADAM RAPPI show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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 RAPPI’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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 don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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 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 RAPPSo I started to think like, “well if I’m going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct”.
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 RAPPI appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
ADAM RAPPThe stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
ADAM RAPPIt’s been hard for me to not write, and that’s the only process I can speak to I guess, it’s so compulsive and I need to do it all the time that sometimes I make myself not do it so I can actually tend to my life.
ADAM RAPP