The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
ADAM RAPPThe stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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 RAPPCriticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
ADAM RAPPThere’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
ADAM RAPPIf it weren’t for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family’s turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.
ADAM RAPPI 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 RAPPI dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
ADAM RAPPAnd there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
ADAM RAPPIn Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
ADAM RAPPYou can’t run forever.
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.
ADAM RAPPThe heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
ADAM RAPPI know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
ADAM RAPPMy 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.
ADAM RAPPFifteen years ago I killed my sister.
ADAM RAPPFor some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.
ADAM RAPP