Quote

What I've learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.

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
Merely
Learned
Lasts
Last
Years
Storyteller

More quotes by Adam Rapp

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
Image
You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
Adam Rapp
Image
I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship.
Adam Rapp
Image
When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot.
Adam Rapp
Image
I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.
Adam Rapp
Image
It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.
Adam Rapp
Image
I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter.
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
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
I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
Adam Rapp
Image
It's strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can't even answer it.
Adam Rapp
Image
I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
Adam Rapp
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 song in your head even if there isn't a radio playing the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they're not in the sky
Adam Rapp
Image
Man, that's the only kind of book I like – one that's so real you want to find out everything there is to know about the person who wrote it, like how tall he is and what kind of music he likes and whether or not he really went through all the stuff he was writing about.
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
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 I'll see them in something and I'll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.
Adam Rapp
Image
A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing.
Adam Rapp
Image
I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible, I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel but sometimes, I'll take a break for a couple weeks for a project that is paying me money like a television project which I try to stay away from just to stay financially ahead of the game.
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