I think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
ADAM RAPPI think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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 think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I’m sensitive to it.
ADAM RAPPI 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.
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 RAPPI would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.
ADAM RAPPThe rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
ADAM RAPPIn Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
ADAM RAPPI dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
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’ll take a break for a couple weeks for a project that is paying me money like a television project which I try to stay away from just to stay financially ahead of the game.
ADAM RAPPSo I started to think like, “well if I’m going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct”.
ADAM RAPPI don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
ADAM RAPPI don’t put big concepts on my work, and it’s all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.
ADAM RAPPThe scent goes right to your stomach.
ADAM RAPPMy characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
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