When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot. Adam Rapp More Quotes by Adam Rapp More Quotes From Adam Rapp 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 walldeathmoving 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. Adam Rapp griefrainheart 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 doctorseggsheart 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 foreverskyrunning Man, that's the only kind of book I like one that's so real you want to find out everything there is to know about the person who wrote it, like how tall he is and what kind of music he likes and whether or not he really went through all the stuff he was writing about. Adam Rapp realwritingbook I've been living in Portland for five months and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I probably won't really know for years because that's how it works right? You don't really develop feelings about a place till you've left it. It's like a girl or a dog. Adam Rapp girldogyears 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 Adam Rapp heartsongtalking 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 playwritingpeople 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 hatejobsthinking I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can. Adam Rapp villageeastthinking 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. Adam Rapp emotionalgirlfriendcharacter 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 actorsbrotherthinking A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing. Adam Rapp typicalwriting 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 schedulesanswerspeople 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 writingsometimesneeds 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 billschallengespay When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I'm a much more practical person in the world, I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused. But when I'm writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I'm just impossible to get in touch with, and I don't spend time with friends. Adam Rapp differentwritingworld I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with. Adam Rapp stealingdirectorsideas 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 fightingplaythinking I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in. Adam Rapp typedirectorsrooms
