Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
ADAM RAPPSometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
ADAM RAPPIce congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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 RAPPGrief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system.
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 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.
ADAM RAPPSomewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
ADAM RAPPYou have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
ADAM RAPPI know that something inevitable will happen.
ADAM RAPPWhen it’s just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.
ADAM RAPPMore often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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 RAPPYou can’t run forever.
ADAM RAPPI appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
ADAM RAPPI won’t eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him.
ADAM RAPPI began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
ADAM RAPP