Richard Foreman Quotes

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.

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

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

I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the ‘instantly available’.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.