I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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I 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.
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I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
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It just happens quicker and faster now.
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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.
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My life has been in shambles, like my personal relationships, my laundry, paying bills now I have someone who pays my bills and it’s always been a challenge because it overwhelms me.
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And you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
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Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
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I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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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.
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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it’s a lie already at work.
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What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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So I started to think like, “well if I’m going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct”.
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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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