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 Read Quote
When you’re making under-million-dollar films, it becomes so much about actors’ availability. When you’re using big actors for small films, you’re in second or third position to the big monoliths. Adam Rapp Read Quote
Film directing has perfected my theater directing. I think when I first started directing, a lot of my stuff was very lateral; I was afraid to have the actors’ backs turned away, afraid to put them too far upstage, and I think once I did more things with film, I got more interested in composition. Adam Rapp Read Quote
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. Adam Rapp Read Quote
The biggest audience for Off Broadway is mostly coming in on a train – either Upper East Siders or Metro-North. I go to the theater, and everyone around me is over 50. How interested will they be in my kind of work? Adam Rapp Read Quote
I saw ‘Six Degrees of Separation’ because my brother was in it. It was a watershed experience. It was theatrical and scary, and New York functioned like a character. John Guare became a hero for me. Adam Rapp Read Quote
I hate the idea of sheltering kids from challenging books. It’s just another form of conservative fear that promotes ignorance more than anything else. Adam Rapp Read Quote
There was a kind of physical anarchy that dominated most of my younger life. I was always too skinny, not hairy enough, my voice jumped around. It was a thing that drove me away from towel lines in gym class. Adam Rapp Read Quote
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 Read Quote
