Quotes by Adam Rapp

Adam Rapp

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

Typical

Writing

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

Fifteen

My Sister

Years

Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system. Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity. Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs. The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.

Grief

Heart

Rain

I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.

Directors

Ideas

Stealing

I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.

Directors

Rooms

Type

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

Heart

Song

Talking

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.

Actors

Rooms

Together

I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I’ve lived here for sixteen years.

Drinking

Milk

Years

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”.

Fighting

Play

Thinking

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.

Actors

Designer

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Actors

Authorship

Bills

Challenges

Character

Community

Couple

Death

Designer

Different

Directors

Dog

Drinking

Emotional

Fifteen

Fighting

Forever

Fun

Girl

Girlfriend

Grief

Heart

Helping

I've Learned

Ideas

Important

Lasts

Laughing

Littles

Milk

Moving

My Sister

Party

Pay

People

Play

Rain

Rehearsal

Rooms

School

Simple

Sometimes

Song

Stage Managers

Stealing

Support

Talking

Thinking

Together

Trying

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Quotes by Adam Rapp

Adam Rapp

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

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.

I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.

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

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.

I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I’ve lived here for sixteen years.

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”.

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.

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