What I've learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller. — 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 like to write about teenagers because it's such an uncertain and dramatic time. — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot. It's strange: people have… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
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… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I'm a much more practical person in the world, I… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
Man, that's the only kind of book I like one that's so real you want to find out everything there is… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen.… — 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… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot. — 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… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I have never successfully written in the third person. If there's a rhythm or a musicality that interests me, I become obsessed… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible, I write till the… — 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 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
