A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
ADAM RAPPA typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
ADAM RAPPI think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
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 tend to not write for a long period of time until I can’t not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops.
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 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’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
ADAM RAPPIf I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.
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 RAPPIt’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.
ADAM RAPPIn Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
ADAM RAPPThe rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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 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 RAPPAnd you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
ADAM RAPPThe stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
ADAM RAPP