Adam Rapp Quotes, Trying Quotes, Horrible Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Rapp Quotes , Trying Quotes , Horrible Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Rapp Quotes

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Rapp Quotes , Years Quotes , Fifteen Quotes

I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want certain things and they're in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that. More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens. I don't know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady's, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts. If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I'd have someone enter with a machine gun.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Rapp Quotes , Character Quotes , Writing Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Rapp Quotes , Death Quotes , Wall Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Rapp Quotes , Couple Quotes , Writing Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Rapp Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Rapp Quotes , Party Quotes , Thinking Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Rapp Quotes , Fun Quotes , Laughing Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Rapp Quotes , Writing Quotes , World Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Rapp Quotes , Writing Quotes , Play Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Rapp Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Authorship Quotes