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 More Quotes by Adam Rapp More Quotes From Adam Rapp 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. Adam Rapp party helping thinking I've never really felt that I've had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes. Adam Rapp clothes cutting hair What I've learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller. Adam Rapp ive-learned lasts years I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship. Adam Rapp working-it authorship thinking I think I'm a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge. Adam Rapp play littles thinking When it's just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that. Adam Rapp actors couple rooms I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. Adam Rapp designer actors 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 hats matter directors The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins. Adam Rapp winning rooms ideas Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me. Adam Rapp stage-managers sometimes ideas 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 couple games writing When I work in the theater, you know you'll get this almost devotional, religious experience where you're breaking bread with everyone every day. Adam Rapp day you experience work 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. And the rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic, and the best idea wins. Adam Rapp i-am feel best love I was a jock in college and high school, but I didn't hang out with the jocks. I was sort of a nerd who didn't look like a nerd. I never really fit into any social set. Adam Rapp look high-school college school I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff. Adam Rapp feel me quality serious I love plays that have musical moments. I'm not a big fan of musicals per se, but I love straight plays that have musical edges to them. I don't know if I will ever be able to structure a musical, but 'Finer Noble Gases' is as close as I've gotten. Adam Rapp will know moments love When I came to New York, I was really awkward. I went to military academy for high school, so I didn't have the socialization that most kids do. When I got here, I was five years behind everybody. Talking to women was weird for me. Adam Rapp weird me women school I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and I went to a military academy for high school in Wisconsin. Then I went to college, on a basketball scholarship to a small school in Iowa, so I'm like Mr. Midwest. Adam Rapp high-school youth born school When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot. It's strange: people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can't even answer it. I don't keep regular hours. Adam Rapp i-am me writing people Some of the greatest works of theater, from Chekov's work to modern playwrights', consist of just a few people in a room with no one leaving. Adam Rapp some leaving work people
