Richard Foreman Quotes

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• Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.
• My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.
• I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of the highly educated…
• Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism of his times, but also…
• I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload…
• Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were…
• What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.
• 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…
• I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main…
• Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.
• It's true, I don't like the real world.
• One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.
• 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…
• I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.
• If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.
• 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,…
• You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.
• I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.
• 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…
• There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.

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