Adam Rapp Quotes

To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.

I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.

I like to control my films from beginning to end, to write them the way I want.

People ask, 'Why would you cast yourself in your movie?' And, for me, it's more like an achievement that I am now not playing all the parts, you know? Like I was for so long, in all my performances and a lot of my short movies. So, that's where I'm coming from, not out of a kind of actress-y sense of myself. I mean, I don't really see myself as an actress, but more from performance: this is how you make something. You do it yourself. You're in it and you write it. I think I keep doing it that way, 'cause it's my way. It's what makes me feel like I know how to do it.

I don't see myself directing things I don't write because, to me, directing was just an extension of the writing process.

I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to know it better than someone else.

I think now that I've tried directing, I'm not interested in doing adaptations anymore. I could do an adaptation of someone else's work that I would write, but the idea of taking someone else's material entirely doesn't interest me. One of the things that I found really helpful, at least in my mind - and I've never discussed this with the actors or with the people I work with - is that being a neophyte in directing, I feel like I have a kind of authority simply because I'm the writer as well.

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

I love to write, so I think writing would be the next natural step. And if I'm making something that I'm writing, it would also probably make sense to be a producer and have some creative input from that perspective as well. Eventually, I do want to direct, but I want to get comfortable in those two jobs first. I want to dip my foot into this pool before I dive in I guess.

I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

I find directing more satisfying.

An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.

I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.

I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's what directing is to me.

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It is the director. It's his piece of work.

I make movies I want to see.

Being a filmmaker in the digital platform has given me complete creative control. I can make what I want, when I want. I don't have to wait to book an audition.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

If you write, produce and direct, you own things and see them through to the end.

Even when I'm not directing, that doesn't stop Owen from having ideas for what I should be doing.

I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.

I honestly never wanted to direct. It was only when I started to work on 'Alexander the Great' that I realized I had to direct. I saw something so specifically in my mind, I could not leave it to someone else.

I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.