All Richard Foreman Quotes
- Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves. Always Makes
- My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization. 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… All
- 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… Always Disappointing
- 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… All
- 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… Age
- What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play. Day
- 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… Actor
- 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… Acted
- Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience. Actor
- It's true, I don't like the real world. Inspirational
- One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience. Art
- 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… Desperately
- I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky. Been
- If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit. 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,… Bizarre
- You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army. 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. Coming
- 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… Art
- There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life. Absolutely
- Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again. Born
- 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… Absolutely
- So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale. Decided
- 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… Actor