Adam Rapp Quotes

You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.

When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot.

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.

It's strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can't even answer it.

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.

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've never really felt that I've had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.

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

I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship.

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

When it's just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.

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

I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter.

The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.

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

I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I'm sensitive to it.

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.

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.

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.

You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.

My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

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.

Whenever I've been in rehearsals, it's really fun, there's always laughing.

We only have so much time.... Time will kill you – it really will.

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'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.

No one answered. You could hear the light buzzing over us. I love that sound. It means school isn't working, that the teachers are losing the battle.

Love, JamieP.S. I can't believe you're dying. Please don't die.