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 Rapp Copy Share Image
One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Whenever I've been in rehearsals, it's really fun, there's always laughing. — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 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 spend your… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
