Richard Foreman Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Richard Foreman
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
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
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
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it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves. — 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
Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience. — 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
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
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
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 and articulate personality
a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) there placement of complex inner density with a new kind of self
evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the 'instantly available.' — Richard Foreman
You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army. — Richard Foreman
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
If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit. — Richard Foreman
There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life. — Richard Foreman
One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience. — 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
Like garden weeds, conflict always seems to find a way of sprouting up, — Richard Foreman
My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization. — Richard Foreman