In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
ADAM RAPPIn Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
ADAM RAPPYou have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
ADAM RAPPIt’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.
ADAM RAPPWe’re so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
ADAM RAPPI don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
ADAM RAPPWhat I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
ADAM RAPPI think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
ADAM RAPPI don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
ADAM RAPPI think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.
ADAM RAPPSometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
ADAM RAPPAnd there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
ADAM RAPPThere’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 try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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 know that something inevitable will happen.
ADAM RAPPYou can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
ADAM RAPP