I 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 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.
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I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn’t matter.
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The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
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I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
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If 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.
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It’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.
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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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I’ve been living in Portland for five months and I’m not sure how I feel about it. I probably won’t really know for years because that’s how it works right?
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My 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.
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If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.
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For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.
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I 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.
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Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
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