Quotes By Richard Foreman
I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.
Richard Foreman
There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.
Richard Foreman
I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.
Richard Foreman
My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.
Richard Foreman
From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything.
Richard Foreman
I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.
Richard Foreman
I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.
Richard Foreman
Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.
Richard Foreman
Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.
Richard Foreman
As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.
Richard Foreman
All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language.
Richard Foreman