When it’s just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.
ADAM RAPPWhen it’s just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.
ADAM RAPPAnd there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
ADAM RAPPI know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
ADAM RAPPCriticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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 RAPPYou can’t run forever.
ADAM RAPPI think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
ADAM RAPPI don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart
ADAM RAPPI’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
ADAM RAPPYou don’t really develop feelings about a place till you’ve left it. It’s like a girl or a dog.
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 RAPPThere’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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 RAPPA typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
ADAM RAPPI don’t know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady’s, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts.
ADAM RAPPWhenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
ADAM RAPP