Top 73 Quotes & Sayings by Adam Rapp - Page 2

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

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

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

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.

I feel that I'd rather know an actors' work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or I'll see them in something and I'll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.