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Richard Foreman Quotes

Richard Foreman quotes

Playwright June 10, 1937

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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
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
Richard Foreman quote: "There is no work of art that has ever been made that is..."
There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life. Richard Foreman
Richard Foreman quote: "One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience."
One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience. 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
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
Richard Foreman quote: "What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind..."
What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play. Richard Foreman
Richard Foreman quote: "Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born..."
Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again. 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
Richard Foreman quote: "My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the..."
My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization. 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
Richard Foreman quote: "It's true, I don't like the real world."
It's true, I don't like the real world. Richard Foreman
Richard Foreman quote: "So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale."
So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale. 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
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

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