Richard Foreman Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”