Quote

I think I'm a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.

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
Machinery
Huge
Littles
Little
Play
Really
Think
Thinking
Daunted

More quotes by 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
Whenever I've been in rehearsals, it's really fun, there's always laughing.
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
I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
Adam Rapp
Image
I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.
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 just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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
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 deep inside that the doctors can't find it with all their machines and microcameras.
Adam Rapp
Image
The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
Adam Rapp
Image
I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.
Adam Rapp
Image
My life has been in shambles, like my personal relationships, my laundry, paying bills now I have someone who pays my bills and it's always been a challenge because it overwhelms me.
Adam Rapp
Image
We only have so much time.... Time will kill you – it really will.
Adam Rapp
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 and I need to do it all the time that sometimes I make myself not do it so I can actually tend to my life.
Adam Rapp
Image
A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing.
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 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
Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.
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 think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I'm sensitive to it.
Adam Rapp