When it's just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that. — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me. — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I've never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
When I work in the theater, you know you'll get this almost devotional, religious experience where you're breaking bread with everyone every… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren't going… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest works of theater, from Chekov's work to modern playwrights', consist of just a few people in a room… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I'm sensitive to it. — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
The biggest audience for Off Broadway is mostly coming in on a train - either Upper East Siders or Metro-North. I go… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
Film directing has perfected my theater directing. I think when I first started directing, a lot of my stuff was very lateral;… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I feel that I'd rather know an actors' work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
When you're making under-million-dollar films, it becomes so much about actors' availability. When you're using big actors for small films, you're in… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I appreciate good criticism and I think it's really important. I don't like it when it's consumer advocacy, like how you should… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I don't put big concepts on my work, and it's all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I feel that I'd rather know an actors' work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or… — Adam Rapp Copy Share
I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't intend, or… — Adam Rapp Copy Share
I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest. Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart. Somewhere so… — Adam Rapp Copy Share
“At the funeral my stitches were itching like crazy, but it didn’t bother me much because I was like totally tripping on the codeine… — Adam Rapp Copy Share
I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive, and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not write, and… — Adam Rapp Copy Share
My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able… — Adam Rapp Copy Share
“Things were pretty cold-blooded back in Rockdale. That's when my arms were so pretty I could hold them up to the light and see… — Adam Rapp Copy Share
“I asked her if she liked PJ Harvey and she said that she liked her old stuff mostly and that Uh Huh Her was… — Adam Rapp Copy Share
I don't mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart; the same way you can hear a… — Adam Rapp Copy Share
I appreciate good criticism and I think it's really important. I don't like it when it's consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your… — Adam Rapp Copy Share
I was a jock in college and high school, but I didn't hang out with the jocks. I was sort of a nerd who… — Adam Rapp Copy Share
“We only have so much time, Mary,” I remember saying. “Time will kill you – it really will.” — Adam Rapp Copy Share
