Richard Foreman

You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.

— Richard Foreman

I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure…

— Richard Foreman

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

— Richard Foreman

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying…

— Richard Foreman

I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very…

— Richard Foreman

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

— 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…

— Richard Foreman

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental,…

— Richard Foreman

What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.

— Richard Foreman

Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.

— Richard Foreman

I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of…

— Richard Foreman

There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.

— Richard Foreman

As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to…

— 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…

— Richard Foreman

It's true, I don't like the real world.

— 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…

— Richard Foreman

Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.

— 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…

— Richard Foreman

Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism of his…

— Richard Foreman

So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale.

— 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

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

— Richard Foreman

I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you…

— Richard Foreman

If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.

— Richard Foreman