I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in. — Adam Rapp Directors 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 Actor Copy Share Image
“We only have so much time, Mary,” I remember saying. “Time will kill you – it really will.” — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“No one answered. You could hear the light buzzing over us. I love that sound. It means school isn't working, that the… — Adam Rapp Buzzing Copy Share Image
I think I'm a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge. — 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
I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“The house was full of murmuring voices. I could practically feel each room getting choked with the hot breath of other people.” — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I… — 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
I saw 'Six Degrees of Separation' because my brother was in it. It was a watershed experience. It was theatrical and scary,… — 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
“My dad smelled sort of like mustard, which is probably due to the fact that in the bed I also discovered a… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
When I came to New York, I was really awkward. I went to military academy for high school, so I didn't have… — Adam Rapp Academy 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… — Adam Rapp Bird 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… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“And then all of a sudden I realized how little time we have. Like on the earth, I mean. And when I… — 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
“I’m convinced that her obsession with Jesus was far more romantic than spiritual. I think she was actually attracted to him. I… — 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
“At the funeral my stitches were itching like crazy, but it didn’t bother me much because I was like totally tripping on… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make… — Adam Rapp Access 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 Ahead of the game Copy Share Image
“So I think I’m in love with Silent Starla, who isn’t all that silent after all. In group she hardly ever talks,… — Adam Rapp Love Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Leene says I should think about people in the present tense. “It forces you to take responsibility for them,” she says.” — Adam Rapp Present tense Copy Share Image
I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship. — Adam Rapp Authorship Copy Share Image
“It was at that moment that I came to the conclusion that there is some link between plants and loneliness. ” — Adam Rapp Gardening Copy Share Image
“Back to his various modes of escape and survival. Because you have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.” — Adam Rapp Escape Copy Share Image
I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can. — 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
Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me. — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“Above the desk there was this framed picture of Jesus. He was reaching his hand out and making this face like he… — 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… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
When it's just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that. — Adam Rapp Actors 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 Directors 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 Actor 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 Actor Copy Share Image
I find that more and more I'm trying to entertain myself when I'm working, because I know the work's going to go… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure… — 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 Actor Copy Share Image
