Quote

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

Adam Rapp

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Adam Rapp
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 15
Film Director
Novelist
Joliet
Illinois
Fifteen
Sister
Killed
Years

More quotes by Adam Rapp

Image
I've been living in Portland for five months and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I probably won't really know for years because that's how it works right? You don't really develop feelings about a place till you've left it. It's like a girl or a dog.
Adam Rapp
Image
When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I'm a much more practical person in the world, I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused. But when I'm writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I'm just impossible to get in touch with, and I don't spend time with friends.
Adam Rapp
Image
I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
Adam Rapp
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 they were stylizing something that was compromising the play, so I started to think like, well if I'm going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct.
Adam Rapp
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 them leave.
Adam Rapp
Image
You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
Adam Rapp
Image
I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
Adam Rapp
Image
We only have so much time.... Time will kill you – it really will.
Adam Rapp
Image
You can't run forever. There's only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky. And you can't go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
Adam Rapp
Image
In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit. And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet we're so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
Adam Rapp
Image
A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing.
Adam Rapp
Image
There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it weren't for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family's turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.
Adam Rapp
Image
I've never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.
Adam Rapp
Image
I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
Adam Rapp
Image
Whenever I've been in rehearsals, it's really fun, there's always laughing.
Adam Rapp
Image
What I've learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
Adam Rapp
Image
Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.
Adam Rapp
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 to a horrible place.
Adam Rapp
Image
You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
Adam Rapp
Image
I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren't going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.
Adam Rapp