Richard Foreman Quotes

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.

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

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.

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.

Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.

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

If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.

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.

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.

It's true, I don't like the real world.

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

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

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

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.