The scent goes right to your stomach.
ADAM RAPPThe scent goes right to your stomach.
ADAM RAPPIce congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
ADAM RAPPI try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
ADAM RAPPYou want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
ADAM RAPPI appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
ADAM RAPPI think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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 imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
ADAM RAPPThere’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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 RAPPA typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
ADAM RAPPBut when I’m writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I’m just impossible to get in touch with, and I don’t spend time with friends.
ADAM RAPPI don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
ADAM RAPPI write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,
ADAM RAPPAnd there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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 RAPP