Richard Foreman Quotes
"My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization."
- Richard Foreman
(Related: Civilization, Expression, Feeling, Play, Twilight)
"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
(Related: Trying)
"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 actor of the senior high school."
- Richard Foreman
(Related: Actor, School)
"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
(Related: Time)
"So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale."
- Richard Foreman
(Related: Writing)
"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
(Related: Thought, Performance, Actor, Language, Play)
"I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky."
- Richard Foreman
(Related: Force, Trying, Years)
"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
(Related: Bizarre, World)
"It's true, I don't like the real world."
- Richard Foreman
(Related: World)
"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 pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits."
- Richard Foreman
(Related: Age, Trying)
"Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience."
- Richard Foreman
(Related: Actors, Now, Right, Theater)
"Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again."
- Richard Foreman
"There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life."
- Richard Foreman
(Related: Art, Life, Work)
"What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play."
- Richard Foreman
(Related: Day, Play)
"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
(Related: Art, Care, Now, Want)
"You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army."
- Richard Foreman
(Related: Army)
"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
(Related: Music, Life, People)
"If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit."
- Richard Foreman
(Related: Theater)
"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
(Related: Love, Time, Thought, Actors, Being, Theater, Trying)