Quote

A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing.

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
Directing
Typical
Writing

More quotes by 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
When I kicked in the first TV – a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels – it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. And there's nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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 think I'm a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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
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 think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship.
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
Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.
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
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
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 dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
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
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
One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
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
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
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